The phrase has its litery uses. The one I know best is of course, The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna. Published in 1953, it was the first and to this day most read account of WWII from Finnish perspective. What Linna did was at the same time cut through the war time proganda image of The Finnish Soldier and the wall of silence that followed the war, writing by most accounts a realistic story of a rather diverse group of men fighting for reasons that were less than clear. For example, after the soldiers cross the old borders into Soviet Union, having thus reclaimed ground lost on the Winter War, one of the character remarks that from this point onward it is a raid. The soldier is unknown in the sense that he has motives far more nuanced than official propaganda, that he has doubts and yet is not a simple minded pacifist, that men in an unit have widely different social backgrounds yet connect... Linna ironicly turns the unit of collective, anynomous service into living, thinking man. Cheers, Teemu Helsinki, Finland __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html