Perhaps that is why surrender calls to me.
After surrendering, Diệm called Lodge by telephone for the last time.
Even at the war's end in 1995, one Muslim soldier recalls, at the fall of Zepa, Lukic patrolling the columns of surrendering troops, calling: "Anyone from Visegrad, step out of line!" Even then, his work was unfinished.
It will be back to square one except that Israel will have surrendered the square called Gaza.
The SAS trained and fought alongside the sultan's armed forces, raised groups of surrendered enemy fighters (called Firqats), and used small patrols of SAS, medics, and veterinary officers to identify and meet local needs.
God Save the Queen was sung lustily by everyone, with the traditional "no surrender" being called out after the first verse.
Surrender is the hot-button word of the moment -- another book out right now is called "Surrendering to Marriage: Husbands, Wives, and Other Imperfections".
Doug Logan, a former chief executive of USA Track & Field, has advocated surrendering what he called an unwinnable fight against performance-enhancing drugs.
Our whiteness is our skin color, but it's also a torn sheet draping the dead, a flag of privilege that will not surrender, a town called separateness.
In that collection, Keegan, who has often been compared favourably, if lazily, – lazily – with the late John McGahern, used an image from his memoir as a jumping-off point for a story called "Surrender".
