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    Odulf

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    1. Gents, in an earlier topic, ignited by Gunner, I expressed what event lead up to the conflict.

      Sometimes people ask me: "Why would any one write another book about any war, because it has all been investigated, said and told... As a writer of historical articles with a military relation I read the products of others, and it is interesting to note that the perspective on war in general is ever changing (like looking through a kaleidoscope). That is also why hostorians and writers will ever have reasons to write articles and books; in particular books about the cause, the reasoning, the effects, the "what if...", and other themes.

      Also, about uniforms and equipment there has been a host of books... I also grew up in the 60s, and books about the nitty gritty details of uniforms were like hen's teeth, but today there are many good and even better books...

      All this raises the question with me: "What will future generations write and read" and "How much more information can be added to what we already have"? Sometimes it is new wine in old sacks (not to be taken personaly), just a repeat or summary of earlier texts, but also there are new scopes of looking at a war from a different angle. By now, I think, we have venued all angles, but the subject is like the nucleus of a sphere or atom, and there are countless points of view.

      Naturaly, modern viewers relate the phenomenon from a modern perspective, and that is all right, but we cannot untie the war from it's own context. The matter raised earlier (what did simple people, without a scala of opinions - like we do - feel and do?) is of great importance.... They were not ignorent, but had limited sources of information. Also, The modern Europe (as we know it) was rather young, only a century had passed since Napoleon. Only little more than half a century (for some nations) since some kind of democracy developed. Communications were slow, and from a modern perspective it is all very hard to understand.

      The world, as most people knew it, was exploding (in may ways), the perspectives blew up to make one feel like taking part in "Alice in Wonderland", and also the rather young Nations drummed up for protection and continuation of the national dreams. It was (in modern words) surrealistic and even artists with a keen eye for absurdism lost track.

      Even with our little skull contents it is hard to understand the riducule chess match which was played on many boards, however, we know the result (which is not refreshing, and far from an American feel-good western).

      After a life long study, I have come to the conclusion that there are no good guys and bad guys, there are only loosers. For every winner lost and the world did not end up to be a better place, except for those who financed the whole bloody business.

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