Joseph Heller's celebrated black comedy "Catch 22" (also a successful film), TV ****** "M*A*S*H", film "Kelly's Heroes", and Mort Walker's "Beetle Bailey" comic strip are some of the most famous examples. Jaroslav Hasek (1883-1923) is best k**wn for his outstandingly subversive "The Good Soldier Svejk" (pro**unced 'Schweik'), an unfinished collection of farcical interludes about a Czech soldier in World War I which mercilessly satirises the ineptitude of authority figures as well as the pointlessness and futility of conflict and military discipline. One of the best is "Eastern Approaches" of Fitzroy Maclean, who abandoned his diplomatic career to enlist as a common soldier when World War II broke out - and ended the war as a brigadier - having been involved in SAS behind enemy lines raids in **rth Africa, kidnapping a pro-German general in Iran, and serving as liaison to the Yugoslav partisans led by Josip Broz 'Tito' (reporting directly to Winston Churchill) - all recounted with a wry humourous tinge.
07-15-2014, 05:11 PM
An Unlikely Presence: Humour in the Battlefield
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