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| What are some good stories about soldiers? | |
| I'm reading Tolstoy atm and he seemed to write about them a lot | |
| Nothing modern please | |
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| >>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 | |
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| >>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 | |
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| dh lawrence, the prussian officer. dh lawrence, the thorn in the flesh. isaac babel, red cavalry. joseph conrad, the duel. | |
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| >>21917937 | |
| if post WW2 doesn't exclude WW2 itself, then evelyn waugh's sword of honour trilogy. | |
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| >>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? | |
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| >>21918003 | |
| i haven't read the shorts, but brideshead was formative reading my first year of uni. | |
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| Bump | |
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| Some of Mark Helprin's shorts | |
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| Brigadier Gerard is Napoleonic kino about a French James Bond | |
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| Stephen Crane | |