Chronicling future appeasing Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain's rise to Parliament from first-generation commercial interests rather than the aristocracy, the author diagnoses even then that he had n...
What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?
What made the Schlieffen plan was not Clausewitz and the Battle of Cannae, but the body of accumulated egoism which suckled the German people and created a nation fed on the desperate delusion of the...
The hypothetical has its charm, but actual government is history.
The boy would learn to ride, to fight, and to hawk, the three chief physical elements of noble life,
Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.
Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings
For each man that shall be damned shall be damned by his own guilt, and each man that is saved shall be saved by his own merit. Unperceived, here was the start of the modern world.
Was compared by Dante to both a slave and a brothel.
In the case of a Gascon seigneur of the 14th century who left 100 livres to those whom I deflowered, if they can be found.
The Republic cured me of the Republic.
Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought.
Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.
Finished their compulsory training under universal service and were between the ages of twenty-three and thirty-four were classed as reserves. Upon mobilization the youngest classes filled out the reg...
What is it about this book—essentially a military history of the first month of the First World War—which gives it its stamp and has created its enormous reputation? Four qualities stand out: a wealth...
Washington's incessant need for NEW assessments testifies to uncertainty in the capital.
The daughter is the goddess, separately or together, of Infatuation, Mischief, Delusion and Blind Folly, rendering her victims incapable of rational choice and blind to distinctions of morality and ex...
The cry of Traitor! was not a local voice only, but a bewildered people’s explanation of the inexplicable. It was the eternal cry of conspiracy, of stab in the back.
Something in me broke and I was never the same thereafter.
Medieval technology could raise marvels of architecture 200 feet in the air, it could conceive the mechanics of a loom capable of weaving patterned cloth, and of a gearshaft capable of harnessing the...