On 25 May 2004 16:38:10 GMT, (ArtKramr) wrote:

I have never yet read a war novel that gives you the real freeling of having
been there. Not one.If the pages don't smell of cordite and hydraulic fluid,
then it ain't real.


Arthur Kramer

Gotta say that Catch-22 rang a lot of bells with me. And, if you want
cordite and hydraulics, The War Lover, by John Hersey, is a good one.
And, despite his politics (although Art will find himself in Mailer's
corner), The Naked and the Dead is pretty compelling.

There are a lot of good war novels. The problem is there is also an
overwhelming preponderence of drek.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8