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Robert Sackville-West has penned a deeply moving book on the quest for those soldiers who went missing and were never found. John Kipling was 17 when he went to the Western Front in France.
Paladin’s AMERICAN GOMORRAH ™ “Two Impostors” Edition And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: — An excerpt from IF by Rudyard Kipling, written for his only son John, who died in 1915 on the Western Front. He was only 18. Paladin knows a few millennials – half of them never read a Kipling poem or anything else by him. Most of them know only the Disney plushie versions of his t...
legal decisions, how one responds to espionage versus a use of force or an armed attack is different. there are different rules apply as to what one does using law enforcement efforts possibly versus internationally recognized authority to use force. >> guest: sometimes people say well, the u.s. stole intellectual property from britain in the 19th century and is in that part of what helps make us grow? and so should we not criticize the chinese for doing this? my answer is always that we should tell the chinese, steal as many books as you like, and that is not relative to what is goi...
it was a war of multiple illusions. the first illusion was that it would be over quickly and easily. these are berlin students marching off to enlist in 1914. here are german soldiers climbing into a railway car and if you look closely what is written on the car is, to paris. hearer french troops marching off with equal enthusiasm. also getting into trains and written on the side of their training is to berlin. and, here are russian troops celebrating in anticipation of an early and easy victory. and of course, those early and easy victories did not calm. there is a second illusion ...
now, there's another reason why this period of the first world war, i think, has drawn me and so many other people to study it and to learn about it which was that 1914 marked, um, an era that came to an end, an era of emperors and 'em presses. there were no emperors after the war ended. this is kaiser wilhelm on the left and his six sons march anything if a parade. and somehow to me the the era is symbolized by the hats that they wore. i mean, just look at those hats. um, here is the kaiser's wife, the emreroess and her daughter. i can't claim that after 1914 nobody wore hats like t...