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,...
Nestor berates the Greeks
Old Nestor has a few choice words to say to his fellow Greeks for their unwillingness to take on the...
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...
Pah to the Iliad
Tom dismisses one of the world's greatest epics, a 3,000 year old classic of war, on the grounds that its...
Flailing blades and razored vanes
This reminds me of pictures of ancient war chariots in children’s history books, with blades poking out of the wheel...
A tongue twister triologism
I liked this punchy, tongue-twisting image of remote and mountainous Macedon.
‘He will get home. That is to say,...
Sun-darkening arrows
Describing the shower of arrows at Thermopylae falling so thick and fast that they blot out the sun's light. Leonidas,...
Beer mats and memory
I wish more writers would show their personal connection to their subjects. This warmth and quirk does nothing to detract...
Freedom pressed
This morning, freedom, currently under assault, occurred to me as a suitable theme to highlight, and I have gladly looked...
Modern weapons meet ancient war
Logue regularly brings modern imagery into an account of ancient war. The Trojan war was a Bronze Age fight, yet...
Like atoms of radium
A fine metaphor for dots of kindness shining through darkness; Grossman's hope for the future is largely vested in the...
Love among the rubble
This refers to a love affair that burgeons in the grimness of Stalingrad, and I like how Grossman expands the...
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