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At the Australian Defence College, I am frequently asked by mid-career combat officers, 'What novel can I read that will explain the anatomy rather than the geometry of war to me?' I never hesitate in recommending a haunting work of historical fiction by the American writer Cormac McCarthy, 'Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West' (1985), the greatest rendering of the elemental fury of war in English-language fiction since James Jones's 'The Thin Red Line'.
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At the Australian Defence College, I am frequently asked by mid-career combat officers, 'What novel can I read that will explain the anatomy rather than the geometry of war to me?' I never hesitate in recommending a haunting work of historical fiction by the American writer Cormac McCarthy, 'Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West' (1985), the greatest rendering of the elemental fury of war in English-language fiction since James Jones's 'The Thin Red Line'.
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