Posted on 10/18/2004 10:22:51 AM PDT by 11th_VA
The Alps giveth, and the Alps taketh away.
oops--didn't see your post (great minds think alike)
Probably the best known one would be Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms", loosely based on his own Kerry-like brief service (with a real wound that did put him in the hospital). However, my favorites from that sector are several novels by John Biggin.
One title is something like "The Emperor's Colored Coat", can't remember the others. The central character is an old Austro-Hungarian officer, 100+ years old, reminiscing about his wartime exploits as a submarine officer and later an aviator in the Italian theater. Subtle humor along with a great deal of trivial knowledge about military affairs of an empire with eleven different languages in use.
Probably the best known one would be Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms", loosely based on his own Kerry-like brief service (with a real wound that did put him in the hospital). However, my favorites from that sector are several novels by John Biggin.
One title is something like "The Emperor's Colored Coat", can't remember the others. The central character is an old Austro-Hungarian officer, 100+ years old, reminiscing about his wartime exploits as a submarine officer and later an aviator in the Italian theater. Subtle humor along with a great deal of trivial knowledge about military affairs of an empire with eleven different languages in use.
Karma, Neh?
That would be John Biggins, not Biggin, and the first of the series is "A Sailor of Austria".
Sounds like X-Files. Perhaps the guy found his future self in the past. He is/was the Iceman! Time travel!
Allah be praised. Thanks!
In about 5,300 years he'll turn up, and be studied as a "Prehistoric" man...
Irony can be, well, Ironic at times.
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