When Victoria ascended the British throne on 20 June 1837, G. A. Henty was not yet five years old. Yet in thousands of young boys' lives Henty was destined to be as important as the queen. In a 1980 review of the most recent biography of Henty, Eric Stok...
G. A. Henty once described himself as "a fierce and truculent Briton, ready to defy the whole world." It was an exaggerated yet appropriate description, given Henty's character and appearance. He was a tall, powerfully built man, with a large head and a...
PERILOUS TIMES Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism By Geoffrey R. Stone. Norton. 730 pp. $35 On July 4, 1951, at the height of Cold War tensions, a reporter asked 112 people...
THE OPENING SALVO in the 2003 war against Saddam Hussein was not a massive air campaign throughout Iraq, as in the 1991 conflict, but a limited strike against strategic targets in the Baghdad dawn. The cruise missiles were aimed at the Iraqi leadership, an...
