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The art of history writing is one which has gone through countless phases. There has been the tribal story handed from generation to generation by word of mouth or drawn on the walls of caves. Later came the sagas of the heros, more myth than fact. Some nations like the...
At the pass of Thermopolae, between the amorphous wall of Mt. Oeta and the stilly Maliac gulf stood King Leonidas with his three hundred now world famous Spartan heros one day in 480, watching the approach of Xerxes and his host of iron clad companions, the sunlight slithering from plumed...
Yet the real wonder is the height to which American enthusiasm can toss a man from the very tip and foam of its intermost wave and, likewise, the abysmal depth of the trough into which it can forthwith plunge him. There have been newly-elected presidents: and there have been...
At the outbreak of the War, which he had long before foreseen, he was appointed to command the Second Army in Lorraine and in that capacity became the "heros de Nancy". Not only that, but by his brilliant offensive against Crown Prince Rupprecht's Army (the same Prince who...