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Title: I'd laugh if it wasn't so sad.
Review: The authors vita says that he was once stationed in Germany with the U.S. Army. I'm astonished how he could, in the light of his experiences, write such a plot. I can only presume that he himself really knows how highly improbable (in fact, concerning German law, constitution and officer training, as impossible as the ressurection of slavery in the U.S.) this storyline is and that he simply cobbled it together to have a background for his admittedly excellent skills in describing land battles and technology.As it is, even at the time of its creation the background of "The Ten Thousand" was extremely implausible. It sadly speaks volumes that a man who used to be a soldier of the very nation responsible for turning Germany into a pacifist and largely apathetic nation understands German society so little.
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