After I expressed some grumbling dissatisfaction with the audiobook version of the first volume of Shelby Foote’s The Civil War, a number of friends urged me to press on to the second, The Civil War: Fredericksburg to Meridian.
“Very flat country, Poland.” So said long-time NR contributor and new Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski, as we whizzed at 90 miles an hour on the two-lane highway west from Warsaw.
What maniac at the Walt Disney Corporation could have had the idea of attempting to transform Victor Hugo’s grim Gothic masterpiece, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, into an animated cartoon?
Titles matter! I took up Philip Lawler’s The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture in the belief that I would be reading … well, just what the title said.
Somewhere in The Battle for Spain, Anthony Beevor remarks that the Spanish Civil War may be the only conflict in history to have had its history written by the losers.