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Much thanks to the many GoodReads members who reached out to let me know it had `vanished'. A rights glitch caused a temporary disappearance but that has now been sorted. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Happy Listening! TimB



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posted by Tim Butcher on July, 30 ]]> /author_blog_posts/7771332-a-moving-discovery Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0800 /author_blog_posts/7771332-a-moving-discovery
Yet deep in Lee's `A Moment of War', his memoir about taking part in the Spanish Civil War in 1937/8 was this. No grandstanding, no chest puffing, no swagger, just searing honesty about the mucky process of taking a life in combat.

`I headed for the old barn where I'd spent my first night. I lay in a state of sick paralysis. I had killed a man, and remembered his shocked, angry eyes. There was nothing I could say to him now. Tanks rattled by and cries receded. I began to have hallucinations and breaks in the brain. I lay there knowing neither time nor place.....Was this then what I had come for, and all my journey had meant - to smudge out the life of an unknown young man in a blur of panic which in no way could affect victory or defeat?'

Jihadists, would-be American Snipers, cadets, soldiers, patriots: read these words and think, that when all is done it might just come down to `smudging out a life in a blur of panic'.

posted by Tim Butcher on March, 13 ]]>