In the author's 82nd year, and 36 years after he won the Booker for G., they have have fallen under the hypnotic spell of John Berger's fable of war, plunder and resistance, From A to X.
For the art market, war plunder is a major issue.
Nomadic alliances were formed through distributing war plunder and ensuring the security of tribal property, and grew tenuous when rulers failed to deliver their promises.
Both during and after the war, plundering and looting of Arab property was common and, despite official efforts at suppression, largely uncontrolled.
The social media post features an odd incarnation of war booty: plundered sacks of dried lentils, humanitarian aid turned spoils of a punishing conflict.
After some 2,600 years of wars, plunder and neglect, it seemed, the site had met one of its surest enemies.
The James brothers rode with Quantrill and Anderson, and continued, after the war, to plunder and murder, heroes to the disaffected; Henry Fonda played Frank James in the movie.
Our sense of greatness and belonging is not based on "heroic facts," such as war and plunder, which constitute the foundation for many nations.
From a distance, he followed the news of Idi Amin's final years of terror, and the further waves of war and plunder that engulfed Uganda under the regime of Milton Obote.
Mr Blair does not mention them, or indeed the Rwandan plot to murder two dissidents in London that was uncovered by British spies in 2011.He scarcely even mentions Rwanda's far grosser abuses, waged in Congo, by its army and through local proxies, during the best part of two decades of war and plunder.
According to Thracian custom, he declares, "noblest of all is living from war and plunder". Thucydides notes how during the Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C., the Thracian king was paid the same amount of annual tribute as Athens, 400 to 500 talents.
