Something Like Philosophy, Vol. 1

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!

Volume 1 contains the following works:

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