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----- --- 21917912 What are some good stories about soldiers? I'm reading Tolstoy atm and he seemed to write about them a lot Nothing modern please --- 21917929 >>21917912 (OP) >Nothing modern please >I hate modernity >I am so cool and different >I am not like my zoomer friend that like modern things --- 21917937 >>21917929 Yeah I'm sorry, by modern I just meant post WW2 Strictly speaking the Napoleonic Wars were modern wars but I was too lazy to specify what I meant --- 21917966 dh lawrence, the prussian officer. dh lawrence, the thorn in the flesh. isaac babel, red cavalry. joseph conrad, the duel. --- 21917976 >>21917937 if post WW2 doesn't exclude WW2 itself, then evelyn waugh's sword of honour trilogy. --- 21918003 >>21917966 I'm going to buy this now Thanks a lot my friend >>21917976 Yeah that's on my reading list I've read Brideshead Revisited and I loved it so I'll bump up sword of honour a bit I've been eyeing the Everyman's Library copy of his Complete Short Stories You've tried reading them? --- 21918154 >>21918003 i haven't read the shorts, but brideshead was formative reading my first year of uni. --- 21919335 Bump --- 21920204 Some of Mark Helprin's shorts --- 21920243 Brigadier Gerard is Napoleonic kino about a French James Bond --- 21920248 Stephen Crane |