John Dolan

For too long The Iliad has been hijacked by unreadable writers. It began with Homer as a campfire tale and here it is, restored to life. You'll be amazed at how funny, raw and terrifying this doomed world of war really is.

They Should Have Been Hanged is a collection of essays presenting a stimulating revisionist view of the U.S. Civil War. Gary Brecher aka John Dolan rejects both the Lost Cause myth and insipid mainstream histories. Instead, he relies on the testimony of contemporary figures like Mary Chesnut, Mark Twain, John A. Logan, and Adam Gurowski to show the American Civil...

To the Crows: Selected Essays collects two decades of John Dolan's most incendiary nonfiction between 2003 and 2023. Dolan went from toiling in Berkeley's rhetoric department to the Moscow underground press to becoming, as Gary Brecher, the War Nerd – a voice that refused every consensus the Anglosphere held dear. These essays are his grapeshot: aimed at the stupid, the...