“The Gifts of War” by Margaret Drabble Number 20 of 27 Great British Short Stories Premise: Two women - one a beaten down but surviving mother, the other a well-meaning (road to hell?) pacifist collide in a toystore, their lives controlled by, well, manboys. Review: Holy shit. I keep thinking the latest story is the... Continue Reading →
Just found this, a photocopied page from the Australian magazine Arena 77 (June-July 2005), about dead-checking, which you don't see portrayed in too many war movies... Evan Wright (RIP), wrote Generation Kill, which was made into a very good miniseries. To be crystal clear - If I were a soldier deployed to a war zone... Continue Reading →
"I remember the moment when I knew we were going to lose the war. Frustrated by our inability to find the elusive Viet Cong, we had developed a top-secret program to locate enemy troop concentrations. It was called a “people sniffer,” a device sensitive to the presence of ammonia in urine; could be hung from... Continue Reading →
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