That constant communication and collection of information was how an officer painted the picture of the battlefield for himself and others, but to us, the only thing that mattered was what was right in front of us.
Mawer is funny on the vagaries of life as a midlist author: his publishing history reads like a tour of the industry's battlefields, with himself in the role of cannon fodder.
While some Union commanders did carry out battlefield judgments, Lieber himself shied away from endorsing these acts, fearing they would initiate an endless cycle of retaliation.
William T. Trego, a Victorian painter who specialized in battlefield scenes, killed himself by taking poison during a June heat wave in 1909, when he was 50.
The figure of an early-twentieth-century Italian idealizing speed, celebrating violence, going and getting pummelled on the battlefield, then reforming himself as a successful industrialist is key to my interests, and to the novel.
Like his predecessor, Obama defines the whole world as his battlefield, reserving for himself the role of judge, jury and executioner.
Bannon seems to have a worldview in accordance with some of the teachings of the Gita that see the world as a cosmic battlefield, possibly imagining himself as warrior of dharma, adapted around his idea that the defense of capitalism and Christianity should be militarized and seen in the context of a great clash of civilizations and ideas.
He has, indeed, the air of a dispossessed monarch, nonchalantly exchanging wisecracks on the battlefield with the king himself.
The hero of "Twilight," who, as I attempted to explain, was rescued from death on a Russian battlefield by extraterrestrials, finds himself abruptly in New York: He meets a jazz musician who tells him about chickens that talk and probably think.
The senator, who knows war better than most, replied that one of his favorite movies was "Patton," and he recalled that in one scene the general looks out over the carnage on a battlefield and mutters to himself, "God help me, I do love it".
