The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell is the ninth volume of the chef d’oeuvre A Dance To The Music of Time, which is part of a few sections of the crème de la crème, including The All-TIME 100 Best Novels, Modern Library’s Best 100 Novels, The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read…on the Greatest Books of All Time site it is ranked 342nd, but key for this place, here, it is one of my Top 25 Favorites – you find reviews on magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are the main attraction

 

The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell is the ninth volume of the chef d’oeuvre A Dance To The Music of Time, which is part of a few sections of the crème de la crème, including The All-TIME 100 Best Novels, Modern Library’s Best 100 Novels, The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read…on the Greatest Books of All Time site it is ranked 342^nd, but key for this place, here, it is one of my Top 25 Favorites – you find reviews on magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are the main attraction

 

10 out of 10

 

A Dance to The Music of Time is a divine, glorious work of art https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-soldiers-art-is-eighth-volume-of.html the downside here would be that there are only three volumes left, The Military Philosophers is the ninth, however, I will read this a third time

 

Insha’Allah – there is a lot happening in this part, maybe a spoiler alert would be better – who knows, maybe I will insert as the symbol, epitome of evil the MAGA leader who keeps acing the cognitive tests, given to him because they are worried about his mental health, I am sure he is insane – but I better be careful

I have been in trouble before, there is a spoiler alert up there, so I can digress, even get off the ramp – just as they want to, from the mess they created in Iran, and elsewhere – a goodfella https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/goodfellas-based-on-book-by-nicholas.html had something to say recently

 

First, mea culpa, I refer too much to this Orange Scoundrel, but then he is all over the place, with the impact on our life, the price of oil, the economic crisis threatening people, plus, this is somehow my space, people should read experts, if they want serious, pertinent takes on books, these are just impressions here

‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’, just as silliness, conspiracy theories, etc. are to be found on such sites – I am looking at what those I am ‘friends’ with read, and there is a lot of Pulp Fiction…anyway, so this reader said something to the effect of ‘I was intrigued, until you mentioned 45/47’ and he had me puzzled

 

After all this talk about the ultimate scoundrel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/confidence-man-making-of-donald-trump.html maybe a few words about The Military Philosophers would be necessary: Pamela Flitton is the new star attraction, beautiful, but so bitter that I was glad Widmerpool may get his punishment

There is a scene at a reception given by an ambassador, where Pamela accuses Widmerpool of killing Peter Templer – he was furthermore responsible for sending Charles Stringham, Pamela’s uncle to Singapore, where he is taken prisoner and then dies – this was some outré spectacle, the two of them would become…husband and wife

 

On the one hand, I was upset that this gorgeous young woman becomes the wife of this fictional Trump, but on the other, I just hope she makes him miserable, and I must confess I can’t remember: I have read A Dance to The Music of Time before, but I just vaguely see Widmerpool playing as sort of cult leader role in the upcoming chapters…