McDevitt, Jack -- A Talent for War
Unusual war book: set two centuries after the war. An amateur
archaelogist dies, leaving notes about Great Secret. His nephew must
delve back into stories about the great war heroes; also poetry,
monuments, lingering prejudice, mad historical societies. A few
contemporary chase scenes and assassination attempts, too, amid the
research. The Secret is less interesting than I'd hoped, but the
picture of the aftermath of a culture-defining war is really well
done.
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