tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650991216932320512.post5918796384138276479..comments2024-01-08T02:39:48.429-05:00Comments on Writing the Past: How Soldiers Die - Ancient vs. Modern WarfareAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17461952469118723268noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650991216932320512.post-17904390102598928742012-06-23T13:49:06.847-04:002012-06-23T13:49:06.847-04:00Cheers for the comment, Bryn, and for the book rec...Cheers for the comment, Bryn, and for the book recommendation. I'll definitely check it out. It is definitely useful, essential, for an historical novelist to get into the psychology of the soldier though I think that that psychology has, perhaps, changed over the ages as warfare has changed. Must have been quite a mental shift from standing in the front line of a phalanx to sitting in a far-removed office controlling a drone. It is a very interesting subject. Cheers!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17461952469118723268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650991216932320512.post-71872052496949312262012-06-14T21:50:08.677-04:002012-06-14T21:50:08.677-04:00Thanks Adam, this book sounds magnificently useful...Thanks Adam, this book sounds magnificently useful. I call Dave Grossman's 'On Killing' the bible on combat; it's subtitle is 'The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society'. I think a dose of this sort of thing, on real combat experience - on psychology of combat - essential for the historical novelist; otherwise we fantasize, and often that means to de-humanize people of the past.Bryn Hammondhttp://amgalant.comnoreply@blogger.com