Mark Simpson bravely gets to the bottom of the US Army’s gay porn scandal (Uncircumcised, uncensored version of exclusive which appeared in Details, April 2006 ) “Is this your first time with a guy?” asks Jason solicitously in his Tennessee burr. “Erm… no,” I stutter, “not exactly…”. It’s an odd… Read More »Passive Duty: Gay 4 Pay Paratroopers Probed
The mythology, the dogtag dogma, the cult of masculinity and most of all the haircut, set US Marines apart. Mark Simpson on a memoir of the First Gulf War. (Independent on Sunday 23/03/2003) It may seem odd that the United States Marine Corps, the elite fourth branch of the US… Read More »The Few, The Proud: A Jarhead memoir of the First Gulf War
Today’s FT carries a review by yours truly of Karl Marlantes’ controversial novel Matterhorn.
‘One Bullet Away: the making of a Marine Officer’, Nathaniel Fick (Orion) Reviewed by Mark Simpson Why do we blokes – and it is almost always blokes – read war books, catch war movies and play twitchy first-person Second World War shooter games like Call of Duty? Why do we crave… Read More »Lashings of manly love in a Humvee – review of ‘One Bullet Away’