Catalysed by her loathing for war in Iraq and Afghanistan, she studied redacted, declassified documents from the US's National Security Archive and made silkscreen paintings of the most striking.
"All I want to do is to forget," he wrote in his diary as 1939 turned into 1940, "and have no arc-lights of practical-mindedness turned on to my loathing of this Second Great War, by which I am being reduced to an impotent absurdity".
And there is little doubt of his ardour for the military life: the brotherhood of combat; the allure of war; the self-loathing of avoiding conflict; and the attraction of sinking his royal identity beneath a military cap.
It was a political tug-of-war – Franco's regime on one side and Catalan nationalists on the other – that is chronicled in great and fascinating detail in our own Sid Lowe's splendid Fear And Loathing In La Liga.
H. L. Mencken, on the other hand, was a journalist, and so his opinions stand naked before us: his condemnation of democracy, his admiration for Germany (he opposed American entry into both world wars), his loathing of all idealists and reformers, including those "professional kikes" who in the thirties went around complaining that Adolf Hitler wasn't being nice to the Jews.
Its roots are in the second world war and the mutual loathing of both teams and sets of fans intensified after "The Mother of all Defeats", when the Germans famously triumphed over the Dutch in the 1974 World Cup final.
The Kremlin's loathing of him has led to a sort of undeclared war, in which the two breakaway enclaves are fronts.
And the result is impotent government, dangerous imbalances between rich and poor, a nine-year war that no one will talk about, and well-rehearsed fear and loathing of every opposition.
The always unloving Mail has shown even deeper loathing of Mr Blair than usual, running a big investigative campaign on his wife's entourage, and opposes the war.
A loathing of Western interventionism?
I have a profound loathing of them.
