BLOODY HELL:
The price soldiers pay
By Dan Hallock
The Plough Publishing House
368 pages. £5.50
ISBN 0 87486 969 2
Yes, that is the title; the first of many reasons for not buying this appalling book. Another is the worse language inside; not constant, but normally more than enough to put me off. The author is quoting soldiers.
Don't buy it, that is, if you want to retain your illusion that today's wars are somehow heroic, right against wrong, defending freedom and democracy. Don't even open it if you want to go on thinking that joining the military is an option for a Christian.
