Haig was not purblind, but open to technical and tactical innovation. Yet he was responsible for the massive casualties so disproportionate to the results achieved and for the near collapse of British ...
But no one would know that for years. In the meantime, Mauch's line of reasoning, distinguished as it was by the most purblind logic, perfectly suited Cecil Rhodes, whose British South Africa ...
That will be hard to overlook even for the purblind partisans who reflexively recycle Trump’s latest palaver. Fortune favors the bold, Pliny the Elder declared as he sailed into danger on a ...
♦♦♦ That violence begets violence is but a canard to those content or complacent—purblind, perhaps—with comfortable lives entailing little or no sacrifice, and tending toward eschewing ...
A purblind aristocrat, Lucan had not commanded troops for 17 years; “the melancholy truth” about Cardigan, as Woodham-Smith put it, “was that his glorious golden head had nothing in it.” ...
As this writer has moved West, it seems the world has been borne back ceaselessly East, with the purblind prospect of the Iraq War for Democrats on offer. Heilbrunn’s reportage is colorful (on ...
Mr Gerishon Kirima, purblind and incapacitated by diabetes and old age, exited the world before he could recover and straighten matters in his home. Hours after he died, his third and living wife ...
Haig was not purblind, but open to technical and tactical innovation. Yet he was responsible for the massive casualties so disproportionate to the results achieved and for the near collapse of British ...