Well I have finished reading 'The Deserters' and I may be the wiser regarding the history of WW2 which yes I remember as a young child in the UK. This is a harsh book. Glass uses 3 or 4 infantry soldiers' memoirs which he finds not always truthful. Nothing very admirable about any of them. They were trapped in the horrors of war. The subtitle of the book is 'The Hidden History off WW2'. The soldiers were from the US and UK. Glass describes a nightmare combination of horror and stupidity which systematically disabled a generation of very young men as well as killing so many of them. Of course we will never stop war. People sitting safely behind desks far from the conflict make sure of that.
So now my next Dollar Tree Book is 'Shadow Warrior. William Egan Colby and the CIA'
It starts in true whodunit fashion with a Body on the Beach. That's about as far as I've got.
I'll get back to you. Excuse me. I must read....
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