Judging a Book by It’s Cover – no. 1.

Welcome to the new semi-regular blog feature where I will try to judge a book’s contents only through the clues of its title and cover. I should say now that I do not have any supernatural gift or special powers nor do I claim to have them. So don’t be scared by the accuracy, remember, what I am about to do is merely a parlour trick.


Bloody war! Despite its jaunty font and boys own rendered picture it seems to me that it is likely a grim fictional work based on an extremely little known fact that bears were commonly utilized by many Communist armies on the battle field as Grade-A munitions handlers. Only they would have, surely, had wooden crates of bullets and rockets strapped to their backs rather than the bears being made to stand on their hind legs and carry one warhead at a time as depicted here, otherwise the concept just wouldn’t be nearly as practical. Thankfully the gritty themed and adult worded content written by Morgan and Lasocki aimed squarely at the war and military forces enthusiast compensates for this shamefully marketable and erroneous cover art.

SPOLIER: My spirit guide says the last line is very probably: The Commanding Officer takes a glance down to the rich pelt of Soldier Bear and tells the Private to get out, that the debriefing is now over and that old, brave, Soldier Bear was dead, gutted and on his office floor there when he found it – of course his fingerprints were on the spade, he had been gardening earlier in the day.