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Wednesday November 11th, 2009

Books for Veterans Day

nightingaleOn this Veterans Day, a trio of literary lists . . . Christopher Hitchens on the best British novels about 20th-century warfare: “[T]he best of our wartime fiction preserves a certain stubborn and understated verisimilitude that is sometimes superior to what is taught (and even worse untaught) in our schools.” Victor Davis Hanson on another five books, also about the 20th century, including the book that “introduced the young military historian John Keegan to the wider American public.” And Thomas Ricks’ list of ten books that “anyone interested in U.S. military history should read.”