(i) SM Stirling's and David Drake's Raj Whitehall is a military leader mentally advised by a self-conscious strategic computer, the technological equivalent of supernatural inspiration, which is what he regards it as. A neat idea.
(ii) Today, I visited the Old Pier Bookshop in order to buy a few remaining Dornford Yates titles but also found a copy of Isaac Asimov's Universe, Volume I: The Diplomacy Guild, containing "The Burning Sky" by Poul Anderson.
(iii) I also visited Andrea who lives above his brother's bookshop. Andrea told me of another reason for war-time French resentment of Britain. French POWs understood that they would be released at the end of the war - which the British indefinitely prolonged! (Like Anderson's Avalon refusing to surrender when expected.)
(iv) Yates mentions Francois Villon.
These inputs will generate further posts.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I'm a bit surprised you made no mention so far of Raj Whitehall's friend Thom Poplanich, and how or why Center placed him in stasis, for Thom's own protection. For those who know, it would immediately remind some readers of how our Justinian I, Eastern Roman Emperor from 527 to 565, had fears and suspicions about possible rivals to the throne, such as the nephews of the former Emperor Anastasius I. Governor Barholm Clerett had similar fears about the Poplanich gens, which had a better claim to the Chair than him.
And of course you will be comparing "The Burning Sky" to the relevant parts of FOR LOVE AND GLORY!
I would have thought the Germans would have released those French POWs after the Armistice with France, if only to be relieved of the expense and bother of taking care of them, more or less.
Sean
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