In the 16th century, Europe was devastated by wars of religion, a fact which gives that unhappy time some relevance to our own.
The foremost soldier and commander in sixteenth-century Europe was the Duke of Alba. An excellent new biography of the Duke by Henry Kamen offers some less than encourag...
In view of the steady stream of bad news from Iraq -- 43 killed in Baghdad in only two days on Wednesday and Thursday, 11 U.S. troops killed in a three day period last weekend and four car bombs killing at least 17 people in a single day on Thursday -- it is easy to forget that we are fighting, and ...