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You can write a clear-eyed account of a battle and still produce something that reads as thrilling. Is that a failure of the author, or of us?
Footnotes & Firefights
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Nishant Kumar
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Military history, from grand strategy down to the deeply boring logistics that actually decided everything. This is a Chaptra house club — set up and moderated by us to get the conversation going. Open to everyone; jump in anywhere.
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Does narrative military history glorify what it describes?
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It can, and the tell is usually the pacing. Prose that accelerates at the moment of violence is making an argument about violence whether the author intends it or not.