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...life. Later, he talked his way back into the R.A.F. as Aircraftman T. E. Shaw (he took the name legally), and claimed to wish no other life. But before his death in a motorcycle accident in 1935, he brought together his old barracks notes, and some thoughts on military comradeship, in The Mint. By Lawrence's instructions, it is not to be published until crucial people mentioned in it are dead...
...leader, Field Marshal Rommel, and to their comrades dead in the African campaign. Frau Rommel, who was present, leaned weeping on the arm of her 22-year-old son Manfred. The veterans swore to support the democratic German state, shun party politics, uphold the military virtues of bravery and comradeship...
...inveigled the Chinese into the Korean war in order "to slash the strength of China . . . because a strong China on Russia's southern frontier is the Kremlin's nightmare . . . China fought and bled while Russia looked on. To Mao Tse-tung this could hardly look like bosom comradeship ... It may mean China eventually goes the way of Yugoslavia . . . The Reds have been so busy looking for cracks in the structure of the democracies they have not noticed the perch they are sitting on is swaying and slowly crumbling . . . They cannot survive...
...This Is War!, Duncan explains what he set out to do: "I wanted to show what war did to a man. I wanted to show something of the comradeship that binds men together when they are fighting a common peril ... I wanted to show something of the agony, the suffering, the terrible confusion, the heroism which is everyday currency among those men ... I wanted to tell a story of war, as war has always been for men through the ages...
Despite its own mumbo jumbo and its deliberate lack of clarity, The Image of a Drawn Sword is a disturbing allegory: the desperate desire of Mr. Average for an existence in which love and comradeship replace tension and uncertainty. The book's elaborate use of symbolism, its bewildering time scheme in which past & present merge crazily, sharply recall the brooding of Novelist Franz Kafka. There is one important difference: Kafka's theme was man's search for God. Brooke's dazed hero would settle for something which he almost, but never quite, comes out and names...