Something Like Philosophy

by Brandon Fisichella (Editor, Contributor), Alex Burns (Contributor), Robbie MacNiven (Contributor)

Something Like Philosophy is a study of warfare’s sorrowful hellscape. Each of its essays explores themes of privation, trauma, horror, and suffering throughout military history in the hopes that we might draw connections between lived experiences otherwise thought to be separate. Through these connections, we might better appreciate the nature of armed conflict and learn from it. This work seeks not to glorify, nor to judge, or excuse the tragedies of which it merely to better understand them. Lest they be forgotten.

Volume 1 contains the following works:

"A Living Seal of Sorrow: Suffering in Roger Lamb's World"
by Alex Burns

"I Strike No One Dead: The Gnadenhutten Massacre"
by Robbie MacNiven

"No Harder Service: The March to Assaye & The Challenges of Soldiering in India"
by Joshua Provan

"Something Like Philosophy: A Skirmish Outside New Orleans"
by Brandon Fisichella

"All Now Very Cheerless: The Crimean War's Great Storm"
by Darrell R. Rivers

"A Yellowish Gruel Ladled Out of a Chipped White Bowl: Life Onboard Submarines during the First World War"
by Matthew Novosad

"Cold and Ruthless: The Arctic Convoys of the Second World War"
by Devon Erickson

"Frozen Hell at 30,000 Feet: Service in the Strategic Bombers of the Eighth Air Force"
by Kyle Dunn

231 pages, Hardcover

First published July 13, 2024