I am looking for instances of people who "enjoyed" war, particularly in the modern era. Not just the 20th Century, but people who fought in a war who either wrote or featured in memoirs/reports that they had a great time.
also accepting people who didn't necessarily "enjoy" it but who had no qualms whatsoever about doing some very ruthless/brutal things. psychopathic war schizo general I guess.
jack chuchill, the guy who did D-DAY with a sword
Robert Young Pelton is a journalist, not a soldier, but he gives me the closest vibes to that (also seeing more wars than most combat veterans). He doesn't glorify war but he's just very calm and has a dark sense of humor that makes the whole thing come across as kind of fun.He made a lot of money in advertising in the 80s and then quit his job to travel around to war zones and write books and make films. Wrote a book in the 90s called "The World's Most Dangerous Places" which had several editions. The guy has been embedded in so many different conflicts in far-flung places that he has that old-fashioned adventurer vibe.
>>18652453Dirlewanger was a very well known War hound at the time, spending a third of (admittingly short) life in war from WW1 to the skirmishes in Weimar, to the Spanish Civil War to WW2. He left no written records, but he was always described as an overly enthusiastic soldier by his peers until 1944 where his "passion" slowly died off.
I guess Tom Barry fits.>son of a police officer, he ditched school as a child to join the army during WW1>stated that he didn't give a fuck about politics or small nations or ireland, just wanted the experience>"I wanted to see what war was like, to get a gun, to see new countries and to feel a grown man.">" I went because I knew no Irish history and had no national consciousness.">does well, being promoted to Corporal whilst fighting with the Royal Field Artillery across the Ottoman Empire>during the Siege of Kut he learned of the 1916 Easter Rising back in Ireland, and of the mass execution that followed>states that this was his political awakening>dropped rank to gunner in protest, had constant disciplinary issues with British officers going forward but saw the war until its conclusion>eventually got home in February 1919, by which stage the Irish War of Independence was already underway>ends up seeking to join the IRA and fight Britain>highly suspicious in the eyes of the IRA since he still maintained close friendships with his former comrades in the British Army that he'd fought with>ends up joining anyway, trains IRA troops>becomes leader of the 3rd West Cork Brigade, one of the most famous brigades of the conflict>famously lead the first attack on the "invincible" British counter-insurgency troops>evaded capture by the ever incompetent Arthur Percival multiple times>when challenged on his ruthless approach to guerrilla warfare, he said:>"They said I was ruthless, daring, savage, blood thirsty, even heartless.">"The clergy called me and my comrades murderers; but the British were met with their own weapons.">"They had gone in the mire to destroy us and our nation and down after them we had to go."
>>18652453Ernst Von SalomonPeter Kemp
>>18652865How bloody was the Irish war of independence? Was it a nothing like the troubles?
