Like beads of a rosary
Perhaps a calming image, until you realize what it is being used to describe.  I recall my father's recounting his childhood...
Safe rendering
The Russian author Vasily Grossman here resists editorial efforts to render the first of his Stalingrad novels, For a Just...
Peak-wandering robbers
Another menace in the Mani region, though having heard so much of its lurking threats, Leigh Fermor and his wife...
Which way the wind blows
In totalitarian systems, there is no limit to the perversity and pettiness of mind which can land you in a...
Flung into the fire
Saint-Exupéry, himself one of the fire-flung pilots of the French air force in the early, desperate days of the war,...
Alert to danger
This made me laugh out loud when reading Simon Winder's Danubia late one night. Parents ever-so-delicately trying to inveigle their...
They understood everything
It seems cows are clever than we may have given them credit for. This is a recollection of the Second...
Mind the mine
Rory Stewart walked a long stretch of remoteness in Afghanistan, part of an even longer walk which took him across...
The birds helped us too
Again, a wartime recollection of hiding from an implacable enemy. People were warned by magpies, who could tell that the...
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