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So begins one of Rudyard Kipling's most famous poems, which reads as if it were written for the British raj. In fact, this hortatory verse was addressed to Teddy Roosevelt with a clear message: having won the Spanish-American War of 1898, the U.S. should claim the Philippines as...
The origin of Kipling's ode is only one of many quaint facts in this rambling, opinionated history of the "special relationship" between Britain and the U.S. An English journalist of hip leftist views, Hitchens was inspired by the question he asked himself one night outside a Los Angeles hotel...
Islam Dara is a small mujahedin supply base nestled in jagged rocks beneath a circle of mountains, a desert oasis fed by a cold thin stream. Except for the sound of aerial bombing that burns red rings of brush fire above the enclave, Islam Dara seems sheltered. A few canvas...
Combining studies with horsemanship was the idea of Sherman Thacher, a Yale law graduate who accompanied his ailing brother West and started the school in 1889. "There's something about the outside of a horse," he maintained, "that's good for the inside of a boy." Though it began as...
Allister Sparks, a white journalist, was born and raised in that prison, and his authoritative work -- one of three investigations into South Africa being published just as that nation has assumed a new moral significance -- reduces previous histories to the status of antiques. His title, The Mind of South Africa...