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To: archy

Is there a monograph or two, in English, that you’d recommend?


171 posted on 10/25/2007 2:24:09 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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Is there a monograph or two, in English, that you’d recommend?

The two links in post #166 above are a good summary, and offer a couple of additional references.

Marko Tikka's book Terrorin aika [A Time of Terror] published last year is pretty near excellent, but isn't yet available in English, AFAIK.



Tikka has found new information about the flying units of the Whites, largely comprising schoolboys - child soldiers. Many were as young as 12 and 13; the youngest Red to fall was just nine.

"Child soldiers were not considered a morally questionable phenomenon - quite to the contrary", Tikka points out. He says that children and youths were particularly cruel in their fighting, because they lacked a developed sense of empathy, and the awareness that their actions had consequences.

172 posted on 10/25/2007 2:39:04 PM PDT by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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