Why do foreigners, mercenaries want to join a fight that isn't theirs?
Historically, mercenaries and ‘freelancers’ have always been around to assist nations with civilising missions and conquest.
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Historically, mercenaries and ‘freelancers’ have always been around to assist nations with civilising missions and conquest.
“Now I must make amends.” It is often said (when people are talking of the “Auden group,” those poets who came to prominence with Auden in the Thirties) that MacNeice was the collective’s resident skeptic. Others, you will hear—from Samuel Hynes in his book, The Auden Generation, from Edna Longley in her study of MacNeice, from Robyn Marsack and Beret Strong and Peter MacDonald in chapters on MacNeice, even from Seamus Perry and Mark Ford in their recent London Review of Books podcast episode on MacNeice—flirted with political commitment (Stephen Spender is usually singled out...