Finished No Colors Or Crest by Peter Kemp today. Its a great read, & I may go into more detail on it another time, but I had one particular observation regarding BAP's idea of owned space, and how thoroughly owned the space is in Peter Kemp's adventures. https://www.amazon.com/No-Colours-Crest-Struggle-Trilogy/dp/B08BW9FQBF/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=no+colours+or+crest&qid=1596383134&sr=8-1

Kemp is special forces before special forces existed, he's behind enemy lines in the 1940s, he's a powerful and charismatic armed man. You'd think these factors oughta give a man a reprieve from the restrictions of "modernity." And again, its the 40s, not the 90s or something.

But no dice! Kemp is bullied and harassed by (literal!) commissars and watery eyed commie professors throughout the book. Out of touch administrators are constantly hamstringing his efforts, and more than once he is treated w/ such disrespect as to warrant violence.

He finally pulls together a resistance against the Germans in Albania at one point, and gets ordered to abandon his guys by British high command because... the local commies don't like him? Its insane how much doublespeak and ghey BS he is subjected to.

In a healthy masculine world Kemp would've made examples of 20+ ppl in this book, and would have accomplished the objectives of Britain far more effectively in the process. What's surprising is that even in the 40s the restrictive feminization of modernity was already ascendant.

@MysteryGrove thanks for reprinting this one. Its an gripping, fun, and readable story. Somebody more knowledgeable than me (maybe a veteran?) needs to analyze how much the Albanian stuff prefigures US action in Afghanistan, lotta shared territory there imo.