Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said swiftly. "You know I am a man of peace. If you had accepted my 1971 Initiative [when Sadat proposed negotiations with Israel], no war would have broken out at all. I care very much for human life, and am loath to losing one soldier, not to mention an officer. But you didn't take...
Berlin is a survivor, a competent soldier who doesn't care much for soldiering, the man who escapes the daily horror by wandering after Cacciato to Paris. The epigram that starts the book--"Soldiers are dreamers," by Siegfried Sassoon--reminds us that they are, from Cacciato to Berlin, yes, even to Westmoreland, sitting in Saigon wanting to be another Grant, forgetting how Grant won battles: by throwing wave after wave of young men against the fire...
...novelist best known for The Raj Quartet, a brooding, four-volume portrait of the decline and fall of British rule in India; of cancer; in London. After an abortive career as an accountant and literary agent, Scott began to write poetry and fiction based on his experiences as a soldier in India during World War II. His interlocking 2,000-page masterpiece is a blending of private and public histories that evokes a doomed world of racism and heroics...
...tough, hard-eyed tradition that embraces both writers like Raymond Chandler and film makers like Sam Peckinpah. One of the most commanding, demanding of Excitable Boy's nine songs is Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, a harsh, haunted, hard-as-bedrock chronicle of a Norwegian mercenary soldier whose head is blown off by a turncoat CIA operative named Van Owen. Roland's ghost hunts...
...song onto the sound track of Midnight Cowboy and made one album called Wanted Dead or Alive that attracted scant attention. Eventually he met up with Crystal, and took off to Spain, where he sang for his supper in a Costa Brava saloon run by a soldier of fortune named David Lindell (coauthor of Roland). Lindell held Zevon's wages in escrow, in case of either dire need or sudden good fortune. Jackson Browne, who had got friendly with Zevon back in Hollywood, wrote him in care of the Dubliner Bar inviting him to return stateside...