What I’m Reading: “Maquis” by George Millar

Two weeks ago, I posted on some of the reasons I enjoy reading older and downright old books. The reason I don’t often pass by firsthand, nonfiction accounts of war and wartime experience, bears on Reason 3 of that post (historical perspective) — but may also count as its own reason. In short, because I’m currently writing heroic fantasy, with war at the heart of its subject matter, I am always interested to read the real, lived experience of soldiers, operatives and spies, and civilians.

If I ...