The material on these pages are what get even the most estranged and/or recalcitrant participants to actually talk to each other
Elizabeth Willis's new collection is a stunning collision of the pastoral tradition with the politics of the post-industrial age
and what were the real circumstances of his mother's mysterious death
This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Crary
She was previously a Middle East correspondent for the BBC and the Financial Times
The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost AUTH-10500377 The material on these pagesHistory has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear cut that they could be considered decisive. Marathon, Cannae, Tours, Agincourt, Austerlitz, Sedan, Stalingrad all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide turning. But were they? As Cathal J. Nolan demonstrates in this magisterial and sweeping work, victory in major wars usually has been determined