Thank you, thank you, thank you. Laughing shall I die is the best book I have read in a long time. I believe the mind set of the old Vikings to be alive and well. Nation's adopt the peace through superior fire power notion. While as far as storytelling goes the older I get the better I was. Certainly the dark humour mindset of the Vikings is still on display within today's fighting forces. I myself previously a member of the Parachute regiment can testify to that.