Episode Notes

Every war has a seminal novel, a book that really resonates with generation that wrote it and the following generations from the Iliad to Gore Vidal’s historical fiction to The Centurions by Jean Larteguy to From Here to Eternity by James Jones to this one.

References:

Paul Avallone Tattoo Zoo: A Novel of the Afghan War

Jean Larteguy The Centurions

Anton Myrer Once an Eagle

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