Something Like Philosophy is a study of warfare’s sorrowful hellscape.
Each of its essays explores themes of privation, trauma, horror, and suffering throughout military history in the hopes that we might draw connections between lived experiences otherwise thought to be separate. Through these connections, we might better appreciate the nature of armed conflict and learn from it. This work seeks not to glorify, nor to judge, or excuse the tragedies of which it speaks: merely to better understand them.
Lest they be forgotten.
Something Like Philosophy is 217 pages long and contains nearly 100 images including colour illustrations, original artwork, and photographs. 10% of all profits go to charity via The Native Oak Fund.
Something Like Philosophy, Digital Copy (PDF)
A Living Seal of Sorrow: Suffering in Roger Lamb's World
by Alex Burns
I Strike No One Dead: The Gnadenhutten Massacre
by Robbie MacNiven
No Harder Service: The March to Assaye & The Challenges of Soldiering in India
by Joshua Provan
Something Like Philosophy: A Skirmish Outside New Orleans
by Brandon Fisichella
All Now Very Cheerless: The Crimean War's Great Storm
by Darrell R. Rivers
A Yellowish Gruel Ladled Out of a Chipped White Bowl: Life Onboard Submarines during the First World War
by Matthew Novosad
Cold and Ruthless: The Arctic Convoys of the Second World War
by Devon Erickson
Frozen Hell at 30,000 Feet: Service in the Strategic Bombers of the Eighth Air Force.
by Kyle Dunn
Reviews
As a fan of Mr. Fisichella I have been hearing about this project for a while and pounced at the opportunity to purchase a digital copy. As a historian in training I was particularly interested in the variety of authors on this rather grimm topic and gives some needed perspective for those of us interested in martial endeavors of all kinds. I can only recommend getting "Something like Philosophy"!
It’s a great read! Much respect to everyone who collaborated to create this book!