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Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War Paperback – April 18, 2015
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- Print length592 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCastalia House
- Publication dateApril 18, 2015
- Dimensions5.5 x 1.2 x 8.25 inches
- ISBN-109527065453
- ISBN-13978-9527065457
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- Publisher : Castalia House (April 18, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 592 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9527065453
- ISBN-13 : 978-9527065457
- Item Weight : 1.45 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.2 x 8.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #817,924 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,167 in Political Fiction (Books)
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- #7,759 in Military Science Fiction (Books)
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If you are looking for a credible, detailed prediction of how the US will fall (as all great nations do in the end) that would take volumes. The author’s aims seem to be different: to convey basic principles, and to systematically address major issues.
He writes kind of like a good newspaper reporter: readable, straight forward, but not intended to be great literature.
Now, about the other stuff: if you like political correctness, you will hate this book.
But if you have a rather sick sense of humor, you too may find the account of the burning of the heretical Episcopal Bishopess hilarious: not the burning itself, but the understated way he describes the whole situation. Humor so dry that it could absorb all the moisture out of the Great Dismal Swamp.
Prejudice comes in many forms. A rare form is a twisted hate which blames another group for one’s own failings: you won’t find that in this book. Growing up in a town with no minorities, I encountered another kind of prejudice: an ignorance that is capable of imagining that another group just might be all bad—you won’t find that here either.
What you will find is what I encountered sometimes in the East and the South: an open prejudice which ALSO sees all the good in both the group and in the individual--and values that good. The joking of a barracks, or a police car, or among friends (at least before the days of PC). A willingness to see, and name, the faults of other groups—as well as your own!—without taking them too seriously (unless it involves actual crime). A view of that amounts to: This is who I am, and where I come from. I prefer that, and I imagine that you will be equally loyal to who you are, and where you come from. And that's all okay...probably even inevitable in the end...although we can also enjoy our differences."
He also poses this question in the context of the fall of a nation which killed millions: so, what should be the fate of those who caused that fall? Those who want to continue/reinstitute the ideologies that cause it? I don’t mean those who were taken in—he goes lightly on them—but on those who were doing the taking in…and enforcing evil? At times his answer is brutal: but it is done by government, not vigilantes! So, for us the issue is purely theoretical.
At times, this book is jarring if not shocking: but most of the people who ever lived would have understood it just fine. So, are we living in unreality? Or has reality fundamentally changed somehow? And is the notion that it has changed anything other than our astounding arrogance and vanity? Confusing technological advances with advances in essentials? The book provides a lot to ponder.
The basic premise of this book is what may happen in the future, and what the response to it might be. So if you want to refer to it as Christian, dysotopian fiction, well, you're just about there. Only it doesn't smack of a bunch of self-righteous, i.e., holier-than-thou rhetoric. Rather, from the perspective of a "grunt", who is caught up in the middle of things, and the standard-issue dark humor that all soldiers know. Which probably keeps them sane. But will also probably offend many. For various reasons. But no matter. Let's talk about the story here.
As the Cultural Marxist continue their insane march across American culture, some people decide to return to the their roots; to re-examine the study of western culture, which has been totally swept away from the post-modern landscape. These "retro-culture" folk return to the simpler ways of our ancestors, and in doing so, set thmeselves up for success when America finally collapses, either on purpose, or accident; it matters little. The deed is done. The story then goes on in a series of vignettes, which follow our hero through various conflicts or campaigns he participates in. Sorta like Barry Sadler's "Casca" or all those classic Greek scholars I was supposed to read in college. Cicero maybe? Anyways, we see these possible conflicts through the eyes of a soldier deeply involved in them.
Through these little tales, we see the bitter endings to various cultures, and the renaissance of others. And herin lies the rub. If you are a Christian Conservative, especially a back-sliding, former Marine such as myself, this will probably be the most important book you read this year. And maybe beyond.
However.
If you agree with the cultural marxism engulfing our country, well let's just say you won't be amused. Not that I care, but still, in the interest of fair and blanced reporting, be for-warned.
Further more, if you are a serious student of military history, the get in the mud and roll around it kind, not the abstract, theoretical type, then you also need to read this book. It is an excellent primer on "Manuever Warfare", or "4th Gen Warfare", and how those principles might result in the Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures needed to win on a modern battlefield, with various actors. If you haven't kept up with Lind and company, this will update you on their thoughts. Which are pretty good, IMHO.
So yeah, this is by far the most important book I've read, in a long time. And besides the ingredients, the author is a very good story-teller, and the prose is very easy to read through (I'm not sure what was up was that dude that quit after 5 chapters; methinks his politics got in the way).
If I was to criticize, in any way, I would say that most scenarios came off in the "best case scenario" realm, with as few casualties as possible, as in "war-gaming" it and taking the most optimistic outcome. Except for the nukes, and oh yeah there was an Episcopalian Bishop that got burned at the stake.
But minor nit-pik, really; it COULD happen, you just have to decide the probablities I suppose.
Anyways, great book, two thumbs up, go read it Grunts. Should be at the top of the Commandant's reading list. If they still do that sort of thing.
