Sublime

We stood in front of the street of houses watching the battle; the sights and sounds of air bombardment were constantly changing, the people near us tried to interpret them now. ‘We don’t hear so much of that gunfire these days, do you remember the old days when the barrage first started, that was something like a row, that was.’ The few months ago

Nowhere was this Nazi attitude towards the Eastern Front more evident than in the Warsaw Rising of August 1944. An Allied capital containing nearly a million people had risen against

Not surprisingly, these events discredited those associated with appeasement, leading to Winston Churchill’s forming a new British government in May 1940 predicated on fighting Germany. On the same day that Churchill became prime minister, Germany invaded Belgium, the Netherlands, and France. By June, France was under German control. Germany follow

A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back.

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The United States had thus expended nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars’ worth of missiles to kill a dozen or two low-level al-Qaeda members and destroy the factory that made more than half of Sudan’s medicine, including vital antimalarials. Since sanctions against Sudan made importing medicine difficult, this caused an uncounted number of n

The “hikes” did great damage, but they couldn’t themselves extirpate the rebellion. The guerrillas remained at large, and the towns kept feeding them. Perhaps Filipinos helped the rebels out of enthusiasm for Aguinaldo’s cause; perhaps they simply realized that the nationalists were a lot better at identifying and punishing traitors than the U.S. A