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A different kind of eyewitness to war-with laughter
The humorous military memoir is no new phenomenon. There is a rich
heritage of this style of writing created by a natural tendency for
men in adversity to seek humour at every opportunity and, indeed,
to recall those moments in preference to memories of pain and
misery. Inevitably, there are those soldiers whose sense of the
comic soars above their comrades and so the 'military comedian' is
born. The more acute this sense is, the more the tale parts company
with reality and the straightforward reporting of actual events.
This is one such book and all the more enjoyable for it. Is it
fiction? It is certainly not all fact. Did the author know what it
was to be a Union horse soldier? That certainly rings true because
this book contains the depth of insight and knowledge that commonly
comes only from first hand experience, and as the author comes in
contact with the sharpest end and tragedy of war the humour is
replaced-as it always is in such works-with a touching humanity.
Behind the humour there is a real sense of the times-made the more
poignant by exaggeration-and this creates a book filled with
rewards of every kind.
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