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“If we're to have a true picture of the masculinity of the war years, then as now, we cannot sweep the more unpleasant aspects of it out of sight in favour of idealised heroes. To deny men their raucous sexuality, however much it might have offended polite society then and a very different moral spectrum now, is to omit a huge part of themselves. Perhaps just like the boy who cannot resist picking up a twig to pretend it is a gun, they are a part of the uncomfortable truth of what it can be to be a man.”
― Men At War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945
― Men At War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945
“The decisions made and groups formed in a spirit of banter and playfulness were 'quite literally matters of life and death', and fate would decide that unfortunate alliances meant some of these young men were doomed even before they flew their first operation.”
― Men At War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945
― Men At War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945
“If war is the most extreme experience of the human condition, to make a simplistic moral judgement that all war is wrong and therefore all war is wrong and therefore all compulsion to study it similarly tarnished, is a wish to remain in dangerous ignorance.”
― Men At War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945
― Men At War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945
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