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John Popa
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Currently working through "The Only Life That Mattered" by James L. Nelson, the story of Anne Bonny, Mary Read and Calico Jack Ratham. It's historical fiction but, as I understand it, only one event depicted in the novel is truly invented, the other events are at least based on documented accounts of the people involved.
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Craig Earl
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Just finished Frederic Brremaud and Federico Bertolucci's LOVE: THE MASTIFF, the latest in the hardcover 'LOVE' series.
For those unfamiliar, they are wordless graphic novels, beautifully illustrated (previous titles are THE FOX, THE TIGER, THE LION, THE DINOSAUR, all of which I have on my bookshelf).
Check them out; they're excellent!
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Wallace Sellars
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I recently finished the fifth (and final) Jane Hawk but, and I’m currently a third of the way through DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL.
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John Byrne
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CITY AT WORLD’S END by Edmund HamiltonFor probably the fortieth time. Like visiting old friends.
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Doug Centers
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A few chapters into THE GUNS AT LAST LIGHT by Atkinson, the final book in the liberation trilogy. The war in Western Europe.
Something that has left an indelible mark on me during these readings was the incredible amount of fratricide that took place. General Omar Bradley himself said about it that GI's were "nothing more than tools to be used in the accomplishment of the mission".
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John Byrne
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…fratricide…••• Is that the word you meant? I’d not previously considered WW2 in terms of brothers killing brothers.
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Michael Penn
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The term "fratricide" in this context meant Americans killing Americans.
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John Byrne
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Isn’t that more commonly called “friendly fire”?The Civil War is really all about deliberate fratricide.
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Correct Michael.It's the term used throughout the trilogy to refer to "friendly fire".
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Michael Penn
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I just happen to know this, but Army Field Manuals have used "fratricide" over "friendly fire" officially since the 1990s. It has become in the military the preferred term.
[As the old Bradley quote shows, sometimes the death of our own men at the hands of their comrades in arms to achieve an objective is expected, even figured into the strategy, and comes under the heading in Field Manuals of "risk management." War is all hell.]
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Edward Aycock
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I just finished "The Joy Luck Club" which I really enjoyed. It's more a series of vignettes than a novel so it can be easily read in pieces.
Now I am reading a novel about the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, a story that has always held a morbid fascination for me. It's aimed at Young Adults but it's pretty uncompromising about what the workers had to deal with.
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