Were Ancient or Modern Soldiers More Likely to Die? June 11, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Contemporary, Medieval, ModernSoldier, forget principle, forget country, forget pride, forget hate: your one aim is to survive, with or without your legs. Now ask yourself this: given that you want, at all costs, to live would you prefer to fight in WW2 battle or a battle in the Punic wars in antiquity? Perhaps the first thing to […]
The Football Charge of the Somme April 21, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : ContemporaryBeachcombing found himself thinking about sport and war last night. Polo teams racing at machine guns came flitting into his mind. Then there were the cinematic surfing scenes from Apocalypse Now, Empire thugs walking around ‘taming’ the natives with cricket bats (there was a post-war comic strip), the Central American Soccer War, British bill boards […]