Captain Jinks, Hero
by Ernest Howard Crosby
276 pages~5 hrs
“To become the perfect soldier, he first has to stop being a man.”
Follow Sam Jinks on a biting, tragicomic journey as he sacrifices his humanity to become the ultimate "perfect soldier." This sharp satire dismantles the absurdity of blind patriotism and the hollow glory of war with wit that remains shockingly relevant today.
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