It was a pleasant Italian morning, with pale sunlight shimmering through a thin mist. Poppies bloomed in the wheat, crickets chirped in the weeds and skylarks sang overhead. Lieut. Francis Xavier ...
A wild storm lashed across Italy, driving before it torrents of blinding rain. Winds of gale force tore up trees, whipped dirt roads and open fields into bogs and mud-wallows. Through it all, soldiers ...
Basic Books, 240 pp., $25 In May 1915 Margot Asquith, the British prime minister’s wife, asked Admiral ‘Jackie’ Fisher, first lord of the admiralty, how things were going with the war: “As badly as ...
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