Troy the spoiler
Agamemnon appealing to God with a sour grape Greek’s spitting contempt for the Trojans, like a school yard bully’s name-calling...
Torment-filled pupil
This doesn't refer to a struggling school child but rather the traumatic last moments of a horse in a war...
Images of war
Again, reducing human carnage to an image of barbecue leftovers.
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War wounds
Listening time: 4 minutes.
Among the warm-hearted and even funny accounts of people they met in the Soviet...
Sing what you cannot say
In January 1942, a score of Verdi's Requiem was smuggled into Theresienstadt concentration camp and performed by prisoners, conducted by Rafael...
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...
Beer mats and memory
I wish more writers would show their personal connection to their subjects. This warmth and quirk does nothing to detract...
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...
A town destroyed
Few writers convey the horrors of war and oppression more unflinchingly than Vasily Grossman. Here he describes a town flattened...
What is peace?
Listening time: under 4 minutes. This is Saint-Exupéry's definition of peace, in which everything is in its place and friends...
The Thirty Years War in thirty seconds
Winder has a pithiness about him that condenses decades of internecine squabbling and violence into a snappy summary of the...
Dogs of war
How clever these creatures, able to distinguish between the sound of planes that unleash havoc and so should be hidden...
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