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  1. 2017-10-12, 06:52 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #137
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    Default Re: Reading Heir to the Empire

    Quote Originally Posted by Sapphire Guard View Post
    Rommel was heavily propagandad by both sides, it's hard to know exactly what his legacy is.
    Coincidentally, that's exactly what Thrawn's presence in Zahn's Specter of the Past/Vision of the Future duology amounts to. Funny how that particular parallel arose naturally out of fandom and shared-universe storytelling, actually...

    (It also amounts to a fair assessment of Napoleon, my other RL comparison point for Thrawn. Did you know he wasn't even short? The British took an endearing nickname and turned it into a such a persistent memetic insult it has a psychological condition named after it.)
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