Didactylos reviewed The First Casualty by Ben Elton
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1 star
Preposterous nonsense gets heaped in very large chunks from about 50% of the book onwards. One of many examples is the tired old cliche of an ‘officer’ becoming just one of the ‘lads’ to listen to them chatting - an officer who has had no military experience whatsoever and his deception is to remove his rank badges from his uniform...... if you are going to write about a period at least do some rudimentary research to discover an officer’s tunic was totally different in style cut and material to lesser ranks..... another one is doing a surgical procedure on a dead enemy to retrieve a bullet from his head, in the dark, in the middle of a trench raid... and not being medically qualified..... I could go on....and on....
