Convivium: When in Rome … The Greek inheritance The age of Apicius Cena and convivium Public and imperial banquets Disintegration and survival Interlude: Fast and Feast Cuisine: the silent centuries The Christian table and the birth of manners Feast as power A reconciliation of opposites In the Eye of the Beholder Cooks, cookery books and …
The Kingdom of God Historicizing the Figure of Jesus, the Messiah The Figure of the Prophet The Children and the Kingdom The Song for a Poor Man The Royal Ideology The Myth of the Good King The Myth of the Conquering Holy Warrior The Myth of the Dying and Rising God The Never-Ending Story Holy …
Preface: A Manifesto Anyone? The Hague The War Crimes Trials The Palestinian Territories Hebron: A Look Inside Gaza Portfolio The Underground War in Gaza The Caucasus Chechen War, Chechen Women What Refugees? Iraq Complacency Kills Down! Up! Trauma on Loan Migration The Unwanted India Kushinagar
“Dedicated to those who gaze out of windows when they should be paying attention”
To arrive where we started Some not always accurate nor appropriate clues I read the news today Oh Boy Three women Vicky Murray Rose Murphy Doreen Prescott To try and explain some of it for you Father Michael Brown Three men Pat Taylor Joe Maloney Sean Kelly To do justly, to love mercy, and to …
Preface Foreword Brigadier Shelford Bidwell Introduction Part One Generalship The Crimean War The Boer War Indian Interlude The First World War Cambrai The Siege of Kut Between the Wars The Second World War Singapore Arnhem Part Two Is There a Case to Answer? The Intellectual Ability of Senior Military Commanders Military Organisations ‘Bullshit’ Socialization and …
Men I Kolya Kolyavich, plumber Yuri Averbakh, international chess grandmaster Viktor Endrobkin, freelance journalist Konstantin Dolyich, musician Yevni Tarin, unemployed Nikolai Serov, ‘blue’ Women I Anna Petrova, research technician Adeleida Fedinskaya, ‘babushka’ Katya Chilichkina, beauty queen Maria Malenkova, housewife Tamara Pavlova, secretary War and Peace Alex Yeverenko, World War II tank commander Viktoria Bolova, World War …
Tarzan Triumphs Plain Talk by the Man from Mars Wellesschmerz Signed by the author, “For Harold”