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Buffalo Soldiers/a Novel (Hardcover)
by Robert O'Connor (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)

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  • Hardcover: 323 pages
  • Publisher: Alfred a Knopf (Jan 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0679415084
  • ISBN-13: 978-0679415084
  • Product Dimensions: 22.2 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,172,187 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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3.0 out of 5 stars The Art of Peace., 9 Nov 2003
This review is from: Buffalo Soldiers (Paperback)
O'Connor's book revolves around the idea that peace can be as deadly as war. Paradoxical though it sounds, the book, which is fictional, but based on real events, supports that idea, and both the book and the recent film it inspired quote Nietzche: 'When there is peace, the warlike man attacks himself.'

The central figure is antihero Ray Elwood, a con artist, heroin dealer, and a soldier with nothing to fight except the system. The book follows Elwood, wheeling, dealing, freefalling and freebasing his way through an army base in peacetime Germany. The book is reminiscent of 'Catch-22', and the film, when it was made, had its release date postponed for over 2 years because the studio was worried that the anti-military tone would be poorly received by an America which was about to lauch a 'war on terrorism'. Probably a legitimate concern, given how unlike it is to the typical propaganda of the cohesive brotherhood of the army.

Fans of Joseph Heller, Michael Moore, 'Platoon' and Tarantino films will probably like this book.

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