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...History of Warfare represents a synthesis of what Keegan has absorbed in more than three decades of studying war, teaching military men and listening to them. Like his 1976 work The Face of Battle, his new book is alive with sudden, unexpected details and delights of knowledge -- a treatise, for example, on how to make a composite bow, that revolutionary asset of the horse warrior; a detour into the institutionalized vengeance of Maori warmaking; or a splendid interlude on the effects of geography on war, including a disquisition on why Adrianople, Edirne in modern Turkey, has been the most fought...
...think if a year ago, we had been called andtold, 'We can't support you,' it would have beeneasier to understand and accept," said Rosovsky."All of a sudden there's a committee which says,~'Goodbye...
Harvard did begin the season with a 1-2 record,but the losses were non-conference games. TheCrimson then settled down and won its next fourgames, and all of a sudden Harvard was atop theIvy League standings. Harvard lost to Penn andYale, however, to close out the season with arecord of 5-2 Ivy, 5-4 overall...
...stands in A Big Storm Knocked It Over, Colwin's idea is that normal men and women can sometimes lead reasonably happy lives. This insight hardly merits the implied crisis of the big storm of her title. Colwin draws a parallel between a sudden thunder-storm in the country which knocks physical things over, and marriage, pregnancy and parenthood, which knock abstract things over. Don't fret, she advises, it's not the end of the world. Yeah, and? The book does not empower the reader to face the world; it does not inspire the reader to have faith...
...sudden, I looked up at the score, and we had won," Garcia said...