“NOW!” roared Salisbury. “Get your bloody ass down there yourself, or I’ll have you broken down to a sub-altern before I throw you in jail for the rest of your life…”
This book forced me to think about books about wars in general. I think I’ve identified four levels, in descending order of scope. Geopolitical: These books discuss the large-scale political reasons and ramifications of the war. Strategic: These books talk about large battles, and where the...
This is the story of class in America. Specifically the “lower” class. In contrast to the Utopian image of Colonial America, the early years of the country were marked with extreme poverty. Before the slave trade geared up, most of the people sent to the New World were poor white people,...
i belong to a facebook group called spybrary , which is for people who like spy novels and movies and such. Another member of the group is a guy named Payne Harrison , who I came to understand is a spy novelist. He had mentioned that he was annoyed at a movie called SAS: Red Notice because the...