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"The appellation of the Forgotten War is not accidental; what is commemorated ... in the US serves to sustain imperialist interests. This pattern is not unique to Korea and manifests in discourses about many ongoing sites of liberation struggle. In Palestine, for example, through this lens of selective forgetting and remembering, occupation is framed as 'conflict' and acts of resistance are framed as terrorism"

BARS

From the foreword:
"Anti-communism has commonly manifested itself in racist portrayals of north Korean leaders and government as unstable, irrational, and the Korean people as indoctrinated, mindless zombies. Attempting to turn reality on its head, the DPRK is painted as presenting a danger to the United States’ national security, as if the U.S. was somehow ever the victim."

"As the sun crests, scarlet banners appear above the fields of maize where the road leaves the woods" (p. 99)

So far this book has featured tomatoes, broccoli, AND maize, all of which were NOT grown in the Low Countries until the 15th/16th centuries

I just think if you're gonna describe agrarian life in the middle ages you should prob know that the columbian exchange had NOT yet happened in 1298

Good so far but there's a line mentioning Aleys's family plot growing broccoli and tomatoes which drove me CRAZY!! Tomatoes didn't come to Europe until the 16th century! Broccoli didn't leave Italy till then either! How hard is it to just google "what did they grow in the Low Countries in the 1200s"? Leeks, motherfucker, leeks!!

TINY detail but research IS important in hist. fiction and i'm Mad abt the tomatoes lol