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odds-to-endings · 5 years ago

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it is 4:07 in the morning and I have finally finished transcribing quotes from “Our Mothers’ War” by Emily Yellin. I did not think to count how many tabs I had in the book but I have a hefty pile now removed and my brain is melting.

further editing will commence...later. when i can both think and type again.

HAPPY WEEKEND EVERYONE enjoy yourselves.

(up next: defying Vichy, France during WWII...and then maybe Donald Malarkey’s book which remains one of my favorites of the Easy Company publications. If you are looking for a book dealing with Easy Company in WWII and are looking for something in between Dick Winter’s highly regimented/structured (and very date/event) focused and David Kenyon Webster’s stream-of-consciousness-esque narration with a notable lack of definitive details, “Easy Company Soldier” is a great middle ground. It is at once both very factual in that he relays dates and events and specific facts around events, but also very personal in that he, in a way I find unusual of men recounting their own stories, is intensely and at times almost agonizingly honest in regards to the scope of emotion regarding those events..both in the moment, and decades after the fact.

If anyone is ever looking for me to from Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich, i will likely do it but probably weep as I do. fair warning.

g’night, all. xx.

#book recommendations #Donald Malarkey #Easy Company Soldier #my talks #for what it's worth #IMO Webster's book is VERY interesting and insightful but GOD was it hard for me to read #I have been known to describe it as the james joycian publication of the E.Co books and find it near impossible to unpack #otoh while Bill Guarnere and Babe Heffron's book is one I find HIGHLY SUSPECT in regards to 100% truthful accuracy #as it reads to me very similarly to two besties getting each other wound up with Old And Familiar Tall Tales #it is VERY fun to read and oh my god are the stories they tell absolutely spectacular #the author also does a fantastic job relaying things in their own voice #I read it and I am transported into a room where they're telling me these stories #which is testament both to the skill of interviewers editors and authors #but also the authenticity with which Bill and Babe spoke their truths

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