Top Churchill Quotes
In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, bombarded city by the incomparable John Burns, I experienced four near misses in all, three of them in the course of one day. I certainly tho...
Christopher Hitchens
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Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact intersected with this darkling plain. In 1906 Winston Churchill, then the minister resp...
Christopher Hitchens
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poetry, war, cars, sylvia plath, germany, churchill, infantry, kaiser, british empire, englishness