Map-fuelled idiocy
Beware the map-mad-man. Grappling with the shifting boundaries and complexity of German, let alone European history, needs maps. I am...
Rising like a damp-stain
In addition to the infiltration of Christianity, seeping into Hellenic culture, as this historian memorably puts it, 'like a damp-stain',...
Daft and marginal
I liked this description of a region being 'daft-and-marginal' before splitting in two, with one half somehow managing to rule...
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...
Full retreat, full disaster
Saint-Exupéry uses a vivid simile to highlight the desperate and futile cost of trying to stem what was (at that...
Wine and conveyor belts
There must be a good study of wine in European trade and war.  England’s sometime claim to half of France...
Whey-faced neurasthenics
Surely a candidate for a Triologism Trophy? What a fun image, a perfect 19th century refined salon scene set in...
Drizzle-washed hamlet
Winder captures the moment when galleons, packed to the rafters with silver from the newly discovered and increasingly exploited south...
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,...
As indispensable as …
A life-line for a Second World War pilot was the rubber tube. Saint-Exupéry's account vividly describes the physicality and encumbrance...
Europe as clammy climate
Europe’s emerging role in the 18th century signalled like a clammy change in climate... And if you think he gives...
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