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Task Force 983 ~ Review the Books #2

with Logan Ward

(He claims this was not voluntary)
*Author’s Note: Logan was not harmed in the making of this book review segment. 😔*

1. Masters of Chaos — by Linda Robinson
*Logan’s Take*

I wasn’t expecting to feel anything reading this. Thought it’d be another “rah-rah operators” book written for people who think night vision goggles are personality traits.
Turns out Linda Robinson actually gets it.
The boredom, the adrenaline, the improvising with equipment held together by zip ties and hope, the emotional rot that builds up between deployments.
And then Jimmy Newman—
Yeah. That part. The man survives what should’ve killed him ten different ways, retires, and the universe sends him off in a car for an errand. That one hit hard. Reminds you that life doesn’t hand out poetic endings. Sometimes it’s just cruel.
Good book. Hard read if you’ve lived any of it.
But worth it.

2. All Quiet on the Western Front — Erich Maria Remarque
*Logans Take*

Look, I generally avoid classics. Too many flashbacks to the time a teacher tried to make me find symbolism in a tree.
But Remarque? He wasn’t writing literature. He was writing truth.
Brutal, simple, quiet truth.
The whole book is basically one long sentence that says:
War hollowed us out and we will never be the same.
I get that.
What stays with you isn’t the big scenes. It’s the little ones.
The way Paul doesn’t know how to talk to civilians anymore.
How he feels more at home in a trench than in his own skin.
How silence becomes its own battlefield.
If you want to understand the psychological wreckage soldiers drag home, start here.
It’s nearly a century old and still more honest than half of what’s written today.

3. Rogue Heroes — Ben Macintyre
*Logan’s Take*

Ben Macintyre writes like he’s having the time of his life. Which is impressive considering the SAS was basically a collection of geniuses, lunatics, adrenaline addicts, and men who thought “rules” were things other people followed.
Honestly? I respect it.
These blokes were held together with sand, alcohol, and questionable judgement, and somehow they created the blueprint for modern special operations.
Trial and error, mostly error.
What the book doesn’t shy away from is the toll.
Yeah, they did insane things. But they also broke — quietly, privately, sometimes permanently.
They came home changed, same as anyone who’s lived too long in danger.
It’s fun reading… until it’s not.
Which, I suppose, is fitting.

Final Thoughts (Logan Grudgingly Summarizes)
Three books. Three wars. Three very different kinds of men.

Same theme:
You don’t walk away from these things untouched.

Not in 1918, not in 1942, not in Afghanistan, Iraq, or anywhere else.

Trauma isn’t new.
It just changes shape.

Anyway. That’s all you’re getting from me.

If anyone asks, I didn’t get emotional — I just have dust in my eye.

Next time On Task Force 983 ~ Review The Books – Sean Kennedy will tackle
andy mcnab’s bravo two zero.

(Just hope he doesn’t quit the squad after this one!)