Lodovico di Medici, known as Giovanni delle Bande Nere Everyone knows the trite, oft-repeated slogan. ‘War is Hell.’ And some know Lincoln’s comment, ‘Military glory–that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood–that serpent’s eye, that charms to destroy… ‘ and we’ve all heard ‘Live by the sword, die by the sword.’ The human race […]
Archives for January 2016
The Best books of 2015
I agree that there’s some false advertising in the title. First, I admit that many of my choices are books written before Christ was born; second, that they are purely subjectively the best. Really, what we’re looking at here is my reading habits. These are the books that I liked best in 2015. I’ll start […]
