Sublime

Borodino fondait l’entrée de notre époque dans l’âge des Titans. À dater de ce jour, la guerre ne se contenterait plus de prises éparses. Elle exigerait le sacrifice des masses. La différence – et elle était majeure – se situait dans la manière dont tombaient les hommes. Sous Napoléon, le soldat qui mourait au combat recevait le coup fatal d’un aut

The substantial evil that is war, however large, is insignificant when compared with the evil perversion of the understanding of good and evil which war brings into the hearts of simple, unsophisticated working people. Tolstoy

pernicious,

The bloodiest combat unfolded at Chatterton’s Hill. In the first wave of attacks, Captain Alexander Hamilton, positioned with two fieldpieces on a rocky ledge, sprayed the invading forces with deadly fire, driving them back. After regrouping, the British grenadiers and Hessian soldiers forded the Bronx River and bravely clambered up the wooded slop

In the war zone sweet, slovenly, unwashed little Lina with her tear-stained face, advanced alone, Prince of Homburg style:10 My noble uncle Frederick of Mark Brandenburg! Natalie! Hold, hold! O God of Heaven and Earth, now he is quite undone, no matter, no matter! She shot off, making a bee-line for the stand of the white-haired man. Franz, long-su