"It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country." Written by the Roman poet Horace in the first century BC, those words receive my full endorsement. I am neither a jingoist nor a warmonger. I just ...
A hundred years ago yesterday, Germany invaded Belgium and, in the famous words attributed to Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign secretary, the lamps went out all over Europe. In a sense, the lights ...
The epigraph to Javier Cercas’ latest novel is Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori — It is sweet and seemly to die for your country. Another writer about war Wilfred Owen used this quotation from ...