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POPSI Left the Boutique Warmongery Unlocked, Show Yourself In, “Cry ‘Havoc,’ and Leaf Through the Books of War”
Starts with the French Revolution … one of history’s great, bloody, idiotic and cautionary trainwrecks, sometimes falsely depicted as a milestone of freedom, more accurately as Harvey reports a precursor to the worst authoritarian horrors of the 20th, and incidentally yet another reason to be grateful my Huguenot line got the boot and became Englishmen a couple of centuries earlier … and just keeps going for 26 horrific rollercoaster years of death, destruction, triumph and disaster. Don’t worry, it has a happy ending. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War Nathaniel Philbrick. Been meaning to read this one for a while. It all plays out around my house. Now out in paperback, the real-time classic that ranks among the best war memoirs of all time, Dexter Filkins’ The Forever War. If you haven’t read it, start now. He’s the reason why the New York Times deserves to live. Dexter, an indirect sort of acquaintance currently wandering around Bleakistan . . .
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