Herman Melville’s Terrifying Ride into Mosby’s Confederacy On April 18, 1864, author Herman Melville rode through the twilight, embedded with the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry, on a scouting mission deep in enemy territory. Nearly thirteen years had passed since the forty-four-old Melville had published Moby Dick, a book that was not considered a critical or commercial success…
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Camp of the Saints Warning
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War Fiction – Atlantis DSV by James Ward
(Hermit Note: If you enjoy this post, please subscribe to the War Views Blog. These guys are one of the best Military History Blogs out there!) War Fiction – Atlantis DSV This is a collection of military science fiction written by James Ward. They were originally posted on the Atlantis DSV website, but that…
The Battle of Hancock Airfield, Part 2 (Relevant Modern Short Fiction)
Via: Voödoo 6 von Inyanga 1/ The Battle of Hancock Airfield (Pt2) Back at Fort Knox the General paced. He stared at the drone feed of the far away battle and fretted. His unit would never reach the airfield in time on foot. He had not prepared for the patrol to fail, nor had he…
The Battle of Hancock Airfield, Part 1 (Relevant Modern Short Fiction)
Via: Voödoo 6 von Inyanga 1/ The Battle of Hancock Airfield (Pt1) As the Chinese General stood in a control tower and looked at the devastation of Fort Knox, still smoldering from the battle that raged across it less than a few days ago , he felt a sense of worry. 2/ It wasn’t the massive…
Awakening the Saxon
The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon Rudyard Kipling It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Saxon began to hate. They were not easily moved, They were icy — willing to wait Till every count should be proved, Ere the Saxon…
Entertainment as a Propaganda Tool
Entertainment as a Propaganda Tool After covering the media’s propaganda tactics with current events, we move on to the final, and more insidious tool in their arsenal of subversion: Entertainment. The entertainment industry has been perhaps the most powerful vector for not only normalising various forms of degeneracy, but also pushing subversive and damaging ideas, disguised…
Quote of The Decade
H/T WRSA Download and Read the entire novel: https://www.jrbooksonline.com/PDFs/Camp_of_the_Saints_2col%20.pdf “There’s a Feeling I get when I look to the West…” Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven
Literary Corner: Burning Books in a Brave New 1984 World
Burning Books in a Brave New 1984 World “Those who don’t build must burn.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth,…
America’s Prophet
Cormac McCarthy, The Last Great American Novelist, A Tribute Cormac McCarthy died at his home in Santa Fe last Tuesday, June 13, at the age of 89. He was our greatest living novelist, an apocalyptic prophet and diviner of violence, and will forever stand with the likes of Melville and Faulkner as the chief American…