Features September 2023
The Roman custom
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On ancient violence & modern judgment.
On ancient violence & modern judgment.
On “The Invisible Land,” by Hubert Mingarelli, “Ferdinand, The Man with the Kind Heart: A Novel,” by Irmgard Keun, “Dissipatio H.G.: The Vanishing,” by Guido Morselli & “Mr Cadmus,” by Peter Ackroyd.
On Pliny the Younger, the BBC Proms & the Franco-Prussian War.
On Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History, by Andrew Roberts & Military Strategy: A Global History, by Jeremy Black.
On Alexander Woollcott at war.
On The Body of an American.
On Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge.
Upon the publication of The First World War by John Keegan & The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson.