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"Grimly Larry reached down and drew from his uniform his automatic. He popped a fresh clip into the pocket fold of his girdle. The pistol he slung high up beneath his arm-pit."

Umm, it's a magazine.

There's more text on this page than art.

These scenes with Azrael and Gordon are great. Anytime Gordon is in focus the background is clear, but when it's Azrael the background is filled with black splotches. Also it's great to see the difference Azrael makes in these common Batman encounters. He just leaves with Gordon still watching him.

"and here in this place may be that will enable my country to win its war for the worker. What are the lives of you two and this sailor to that? Less than the flies I crush with my hand, less than midges in the sunbeam!"

This is the moment you decide not to trust the Communist Scientist.

[Stated to Journalists upon the sneak attack by Germany]"Koht revealed that the government and king were relocating to Hamar"

What world did these people live in that they trusted Journalists with the location of the entire government?

"My dear Sharpe, I fear I shall not miss you at all. I doubt I’ll even remember your name once you’re dead. Of course you can join the assaulting party. Do what you like!"

If only I could have had such an officer as Captain Torrance when I was in the military.

"Legend has it that Woldag somehow made the Ju52 crash near Oscarsborg, but this has never been ascertained and is very hard to believe."

Missing Commandant with little or no details of his disappearance? Its things like this you'll never learn from anywhere but a book.

"Whatever business arrangement she made with Conan would have no bearing on her relationship with Alafdhal. Women are more practical about these things than men."

This isnt true.

"I came to these mountains to raise a following of human beings, not to war with wizards."

This is the major difference between Conan and Kane. While the magics are to be shunned and feared, they aren't something one seeks to defeat or exterminate.

"The endurance of the British infantry had been severely tested in the process [Somme], and public opinion at home was shaken".

This entire part of the book is pure copium from a German Officer. Guderian spends this first part pointing out casualties the Allies took vs Germans. Then gives Verdun a paragraph. You guys lost, this is a book about Tanks, just put the the fries in the bag, sir.

Totally de-motivated, Oberst Hatledal told Kaptein Leif Rolstad, the duty officer at the General Staff, that his efforts to obtain a decision on mobilisation ‘had come to naught’, and he was now so exhausted that he asked not to be disturbed ‘unless something very special happens’.

I wonder if a better translation of the last quote would have to swap "special" with "extraordinary". "Special" feels to positive here.

"His Millennium Falcon and his Chewbacca all rolled into one."

Star Wars exists inside an homage to Star Wars.

"Among other measures Captain Martel, R.E. (of later fame) was given the task of creating a training area at Elveden in Suffolk."

While reading this pre WW2 work on how potentially damaging it is to release simple information about top secret development projects. Because of a book released in Britain, Germany (and others) know the location and details of Britain's Tank project and whose involved.

The Huron ignored the comment until he had eaten a strip of jerky, and then he said, “One does not go into the bush after a grizzly.”

If I continue reading Westerns I think Indians will always be my favorite characters.

“Our wagon is small,” Vallian said, “and not worth the warriors who must die to take it. If you wish to come, then come, but sing your death-songs before you do, for many will die.”

Very eloquent. The Western man has a way with words. The meaning can sometimes be lost in translation.

"He gave the unprecedented order for Hipper to heave to, downstream of the drifting survivors. In spite of the danger of British ships showing up at any time, he stayed for over an hour rescuing survivors."

Its the little things that like this that endear me to the human race.

"You don’t gain victories by rattling across country like a pack of hunters, but by enduring the enemy’s fire and overcoming it. That’s where a soldier earns his pay, hard under the enemy muzzles.”

This is wrong. Most major breakthroughs in warfare is maneuver based. Napoleon's army system, Blitzkrieg, Airborne Assaults to name a few.

Rose took a quick mental inventory of both his body and his few assets. He knew in an instant he couldn’t take her in a fight, either fair or foul, at least not without a ’Mech.

Rose, an accomplished Mechwarrior, can't beat a female cop in a fight fair or foul. Am I supposed to like this MC?

“And how is my puppy today?” she greeted him, one morning, after he had spent many days under her care. The huge tail thumped Canthus’s response..."

Somehow, even in print form using a dog is an easy way tug on the heart strings

"During the battle Dmitriy Ivanovich Panfilov personally destroyed three light tanks, and hundreds of enemy corpses remained on the road. Soon afterwards, Panfilov was nominated for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union." It's stuff like this that make me really suspicious of the authenticity of this memoir. He didn't see this happen. How did he "personally" destroy three light tanks? It's never brought up.

"Dotsenko pricked up his ears and Yakovlev told him the complicated and intriguing story of the girl’s life."

So was Vasiliy there for this story or is this going to be a 4th hand account? This Memoir has a lot of this.

"Countless cases of—what was it called?—trench foot, yes trench foot—soldiers crippled just from standing in a water-filled trench."

Trench foot is common among soldiers with wet feet. There's most likely multiple cases during any military operation, even today. I doubt humans stopped having sweaty feet in war zones when they learned to jump through interstellar space.

"Outside, a braid of raspberry red, lemon yellow, and orange orange twisted through the heavens, across a constellation locals called the Silly Rabbit."

Is this really a Trix cereal reference in a Star Wars book?
What does this add to the universe?