Lord Dunsany was an aristocrat, a soldier, a sportsman, an avid chess player, and an author. He wrote many things, both in terms of genre--poems, plays, stories, novels, and essays--and in quantity. Such a varied and prolific career was typical of many B...
The career of Lord Dunsany all too easily invokes the stereotype of the aristocratic literateur. By his own avowal, he was first of all a sportsman and a soldier; writing was an avocation. His plays, especially, reflect this approach, never quite losing...
Extraordinarily prolific in the fields of fiction, poetry, essay, translation, autobiography, and memoir, including fifteen short-fiction collections and at least one hundred uncollected short stories, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, the eighteenth Ba...
THE WHITE HOUSE has hit on an ingenious way to win the war in Iraq. It is all laid out in a White House policy paper, "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq." The strategy was conceived and written not by the nations top...
War story becomes tale of betrayal By ROBERT RUBY Washington Post News Service Wednesday, January 30, 2002 The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I. By Ben Macintyre. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 254 pages....
DOLAN, Kazakhstan, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Khulan Chuluun, the Mongolian female lead in the Oscar-nominated Kazakh film "Mongol", says she never wanted to be an actress. She wanted to be a soldier. "I wanted to be in the army, to study in a military...
Buckman Tavern is near many reminders of the 1775 skirmish between colonial militia and British troops that helped start the Revolutionary War _ the grassy area where they clashed, the bell that rang an alarm that day, a statue commemorating the Minutemen.Built around 1710 and...
