The Military Philosophers

The Military Philosophers is the ninth of Anthony Powell's twelve-novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time. First published in 1968, it covers the latter part of Nicholas Jenkins' service in World War II. It is the last in Powell's war trilogy, and Jenkins is assigned to a War Office Section with the Allies of World War II.[1]

First edition cover by James Broom-Lynne

Jenkins, has a desk job in Whitehall, acting as a liaison officer first with the Poles and later with the Belgians and Czechs.

Writing in The New York Review, John Gross observed, "The Military Philosophers represents a return to Powell’s most accomplished comic vein. It is also, on occasion, unexpectedly moving—unexpectedly, because both Powell’s principal literary modes depend to a large degree for their success on a positive withholding of sympathy."[2]

References
  1. The Military Philosophers Kirkus Reviews. (March 1969).
  2. Gross, John. (April 24, 1969). "Lieutenants and Luftmenschen" New York Review.


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