A couple more writers are a source of amusement to me. A few years back I read George Leonard Herter's description of an encounter with a slick young lieutenant who collected a huge number of war trophies from front line boys, taking them on the pretext of need to study them for war intelligence. They ended up in his den back home.
I sure wish I could find that passage again. While unnamed, Sharpe was astutely described, and by one of America's most read writers.
Cheers from Darkest California,
Ross