22-06-2013, 07:41 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:Jan Klimkowski Wrote:I saw the movie Killer Eilte, with De Niro and Statham, last night. It claims to be based on the "true story" depicted in Ranulph Fiennes' book The Feather Men.
So, is it fact or fiction?
The SAS is adamant that it's fiction.
I was at a party recently having drinks with friends. During the course of the evening one of my friends was regaling me with some quite hilarious stories of his days in the military. Without any prompting, or even thought on my part, he asked if I had ever heard of the Feather Men. I told him I had read the book years ago. He confirmed it was true. He was in a position to know.
David - thanks for sharing.
I still don't have much of a sense of why Fiennes would have written the book in the first place.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war