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This reminds me of Charles Fair’s classic FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY.

William Weir’s FATAL VICTORIES, about the most tragic military triumphs in history, from Attila the Hun’s invasion of Gaul, to Bunker Hill, to the Fourth Crusade, to Pearl Harbor, to Claiborne Hancock at Pegasus, in a nice deal, by Edward Knappman at New England Publishing Associates (world).

Military triumphs are indeed both tragic and mesmerizing when viewed against a dark background.

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Posted by wfzimmerman to Against a Dark Background at 10/06/2005

Charles N. Brown, publisher and editor-in-chief of LOCUS, the trade magazine of the science fiction field, reports in the September 2005 issue that he got his hands on an advance reading copy of A FEAST FOR CROWS.

High point for the month was reading A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin. Yes, it’s only half the book originally promised. Yes, it’s been five years since volume three. Yes, it only advances the story a bit, but it’s prime. Martin writes the best and tensest high fantasy today. Wow.