To Garryowen in Glory
It isn't usual to see this sort of thing; but the strangest thing to the post-modern eye is that such scenes did happen.
The TV movie this came from had a number of egregious and inexplicable errors. The Spaniards did not have German advisors running their artillery, for example. And neither Shafter, Wheeler, nor even Hearst were quite as portrayed. And the writers could not help but slip in the sly post-modern cynicism as a subtext. Some of the writing and editing w...
Published on October 12, 2009 03:29