Sublime

“Putting it crudely, we really went to town,” Beightler reported. “To me, the loss of a single American life to save a building was unthinkable.” That’s a sentence worth reading twice. In Beightler’s mind, he was facing a trade-off—and not a particularly difficult one—between lives and architecture. But, as he well knew, those buildings were inhabi

After a mere six weeks, 1,069 Arabs, 769 Jews, and 123 Britons had died.

Put Antietam on your list. Go to Antietam in Maryland and stand on the hillside near the old whitewashed Dunker church and try if you possibly can to imagine what happened there that terrible day, September 17, 1862.

navigateur et du mitrailleur par des plaques de blindage et, en l'air, nous ne pouvions rien les uns pour les autres. Et, au moment même où Arnaud m'annonçait sa blessure aux yeux, je recevais un violent coup de fouet au ventre. En une seconde, le sang colla mon pantalon et emplit mes mains. Fort heureusement, on venait de nous distribuer des casqu

Beaufort, a 2007 film named for an Israeli outpost on a Lebanese mountain of the same name, was more critical, portraying a group of soldiers stationed there toward the end of Israel’s years in Lebanon. The movie captured their fears at being there and the moral conundrums they faced on the eve of Israel’s withdrawal, while conveying a deep sense o