Sublime

The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing over death pits with guns in their hands.

We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy. After communism in eastern Europe

The move to separate from the EU is not a step backward onto firm ground, but a leap into the unknown.

At the outbreak of the war, Gubbins served with a British liaison mission in Poland, where he witnessed Nazi Germany’s offensive power and also began fostering relationships with what soon became the Polish General Staff in exile, Britain’s essential link to the Polish resistance.

Beyond the great captains of irregular warfare, a few key supporting characters make recurring guest appearances in the pages that follow. The most frequent is Winston Churchill, who appears on the scene at the outset of the Boer War in 1899, returns to support T. E. Lawrence’s pan-Arab policy goals after World War I, develops a friendship with Tit