Having read (and in honesty, quite enjoying the book as a read) it (it's called Watch on the Rhine), I'd have said that the theme is of the horrors of war. And if you want to showcase a military unit that will do horrible things in war because, objectively or subjectively, the alternative is worse, the Waffen SS is a likely pick.
Of course, in this book, I believe that they are objectively correct. The alternative to what they are doing is not just death on a grand scale, it is the reduction of humanity to a foodstuff.
In WWII, I am certainly not going to argue that they were wrong.
I don't recall the Council Wars books having such a contentious theme. What Ringo does have as a writer is gift for portraying villains as villains without making them any less people. And while he's certainly got opinions (from what I understand anyway) they come through much less in his books than in others I have read. Robert Adams' Clan of the Cat for one example.
D for Drakensis
You're only young once, but immaturity is forever.
Of course, in this book, I believe that they are objectively correct. The alternative to what they are doing is not just death on a grand scale, it is the reduction of humanity to a foodstuff.
In WWII, I am certainly not going to argue that they were wrong.
I don't recall the Council Wars books having such a contentious theme. What Ringo does have as a writer is gift for portraying villains as villains without making them any less people. And while he's certainly got opinions (from what I understand anyway) they come through much less in his books than in others I have read. Robert Adams' Clan of the Cat for one example.
D for Drakensis
You're only young once, but immaturity is forever.