#Lots of numbers and weapons and somewhat racist accounts of the Japanese and other non-white people

[robertleckie]

Not to be dramatic, but I haven't been on Tumblr in literal months and I’m only back to yell about Leckie, so there's that. I finally finished reading “Strong Men Armed”, written by the main dude himself, and his author’s note is one of the most iconic things I’ve ever read.

“[names of a major and other author] insists that there were no snipers riding the Japanese tanks annihilated in the D-Day attack at Peleliu. I have said there were, because I saw them and shot at them, as did many of my comrades. Major Hough’s authority was my own battalion commander, who was quite properly some distance behind the battle, whereas Mr. McMillan’s is a tank colonel who went over the battlefield after the fight was over. Certainly there were no snipers on the tanks by then; they’d been shot off or pulled down from their slings of camouflage netting.”

“[...] I have usually preferred the account of a man who has been in the battle to that of another who has not, even if that person happens to be the commander of the unit involved.”

Aka: Robert “I was there, fucking fight me” Leckie strikes again

#Hey can you still swear on Tumblr? #Let's find out #Also on another note Strong Men Armed was a great book okay #But a tiny bit dry sometimes so I read it in sections and took breaks in-between #Lots of numbers and weapons and somewhat racist accounts of the Japanese and other non-white people #Still leagues better than other history books from the era though #Anyway I'm gonna crawl back into my hole now #Got some notes to finish for a seminar tomorrow lmao yes I am still in uni it never ends #Kidding I have a year and a half left it's getting close #Spilling the peaches