It uses language and style to create an art that portrays the totality of human life and history in a very creative manner that makes things that are outright fictions to appear so real that the audience almost suffers from the affective fallacy because of the way the novel brings them closer...
Perhaps the crucial work exposing the vanity and dysfunction of the officer rank is A History of Militarism by Alfred Vagts, published originally in 1937, and then updated after World War II (in 1959). Prefiguring Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, it exposes certain fictions that culture ...