1917

Just As I Am

THE INSISTENCE OF serving soldiers marking out the birth of the Christ-Child, Prince of Peace, may have seemed touching in 1914, but by now had…

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Guns and Gallows

RUSSIA WAS LOST. Its lurch into self-destruction was matched by its capacity for self-delusion. The extent to which this was true has often been concealed….


It Is Terror?

THERE IS AN awkward and irreducible truth at work here: wars tend to favour not the gallant and the good, but those with the greatest…


Next Year in Jerusalem

WHERE WAS GOD this week? Skulking? Or just lying low, and ashamed? The usual horrors of the times — stalemate and bloodiness in the West; anarchy and…


My Brother’s Keeper

CYNTHIA HAD BEEN right, after all. The ringing of church bells, for the first time since war had begun, to celebrate Cambrai, had been a…