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The website of the American contingent of the [http://tenthfoot.org/Songs/tunes.html Tenth of Foot] (Bostonian [[Peeled Nuts]]) includes a wonderful page of songs of the era, including ''Polly Oliver'' - a rather different story from our Polly/Oliver's. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 17:59, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
The website of the American contingent of the [http://tenthfoot.org/Songs/tunes.html Tenth of Foot] (Bostonian [[Peeled Nuts]]) includes a wonderful page of songs of the era, including ''Polly Oliver'' - a rather different story from our Polly/Oliver's. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 17:59, 30 June 2008 (UTC)


I've still got it in my head that Polly and the girls are also a re-imagining of the "eternal soldier" types most famously used by Sven Hassel in his series of pulp-fictions  about the 27th (Penal) Panzer Regiment in WW2. Although the first book in the series, '''''Legion of the Damned''''', is itself a homage reworking of Erich-Maria Remarque's '''''All Quiet on the Western Front''''', updating the action to WW2 Nazi Germany and still using Remarque's original characters.  A direct link back to Remarque's clasic anti-war novel - not to mention the clasic film made from it - might be wholly in keeping with Pratchett's intentions here.


* Major [[Clogston]]     Oberst Hinka
== Eternal Soldiers?  ==
 
I've still got it in my head that Polly and the girls are also a re-imagining of the "eternal soldier" types most famously used by Sven Hassel in his series of pulp-fictions  about the 27th (Penal) Panzer Regiment in WW2. Although the first book in the series, '''''Legion of the Damned''''', is itself a homage reworking of Erich-Maria Remarque's '''''All Quiet on the Western Front''''', updating the action to WW2 Nazi Germany and still using Remarque's original characters.  A direct link back to Remarque's clasic anti-war novel - not to mention the classic film made from it - might be wholly in keeping with Pratchett's intentions here.
 
* Major [[Clogston]] -    Oberst Hinka


* Lieutenant [[Blouse]]  
* Lieutenant [[Blouse]]  


* Sergeant [[Jackrum]]   Oberfeldwebel Willi Baum, "The Old Man"
* Sergeant [[Jackrum]] -  Oberfeldwebel Willi Bauer, "The Old Man"


* Corporal [[Strappi]] - Sergeant Heide, the die-hard Nazi, snoop, and informer
* Corporal [[Strappi]] - Sergeant Heide, the die-hard Nazi, snoop, and informer
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* [[Carborundum]] - Private  "Tiny"  
* [[Carborundum]] - Private  "Tiny"  


* [[Tonker Halter|"Tonker" Halter]]
* [[Tonker Halter|"Tonker" Halter]] - the Legionnaire?
* [[Shufti Manickle|"Shufti" Manickle]]
* [[Shufti Manickle|"Shufti" Manickle]]
* [[Wazzer Goom|"Wazzer" Goom]]
* [[Wazzer Goom|"Wazzer" Goom]]
* [[Lofty Tewt|"Lofty" Tewt]]
* [[Lofty Tewt|"Lofty" Tewt]]
--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 08:55, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

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In fact The Lincolnshire Poacher seems to have been the official march of the 10th Foot of Lincolnshire, but why can't I search out any reference to the novelty hit of the fifties that used the tune to tell how "you'll never get rid of the bomp-bomp-bomp, no matter what you do"? OK, it was The Thing, by Phil Harris. It's always in there somewhere. --Old Dickens 15:12, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

The website of the American contingent of the Tenth of Foot (Bostonian Peeled Nuts) includes a wonderful page of songs of the era, including Polly Oliver - a rather different story from our Polly/Oliver's. --Old Dickens 17:59, 30 June 2008 (UTC)


Eternal Soldiers?

I've still got it in my head that Polly and the girls are also a re-imagining of the "eternal soldier" types most famously used by Sven Hassel in his series of pulp-fictions about the 27th (Penal) Panzer Regiment in WW2. Although the first book in the series, Legion of the Damned, is itself a homage reworking of Erich-Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, updating the action to WW2 Nazi Germany and still using Remarque's original characters. A direct link back to Remarque's clasic anti-war novel - not to mention the classic film made from it - might be wholly in keeping with Pratchett's intentions here.

  • Sergeant Jackrum - Oberfeldwebel Willi Bauer, "The Old Man"
  • Corporal Strappi - Sergeant Heide, the die-hard Nazi, snoop, and informer
  • Maladict - Corporal "By The Grace of God" Josef Porta


--AgProv 08:55, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

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