Ah ha! Fiction!
.. by George MacDonald Fraser. It must be forty years since I read any of those; but they might be worth a re-visit (you often see them in charity shops and at car-boot sales). Hazzah! Hazzah!
But how about the "Sharpe" series (by Bernard Cornwell)?
And surely every ex-army guy "of a certain age" must remember Sven Hassel* ... "The Legion of the Damned"
etc., etc.? I remember them being very popular and shared (swapped) amongst the lads in Germany.
Meanwhile, does anyone (else) enjoy the "Jack Reacher" books? I like to take them in the order they were published (although they have all seemed pretty much "stand alone"), but have only got as far as the third in the series ("Tripwire") so far. What do you reckon on them? Lee Child has now written so many that surely they must have become increasingly far-fetched!
*
He was Danish, you know.
