Review: Good Italy Bad Italy February 4, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
Italy is a total maverick: a country of extremes that breaks all the rules of how a modern western democracy should work and yet that does work and, in many respects, works quite well. Observers from other countries, particularly from the English-speaking world have long been fascinated by this anomaly. On the one hand, they […]
August 1914: Surprise or Countdown? February 14, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
In western memory, particularly in European memory the guns of August 1914 were a long awaited horror: and while the First World War was so much worse than anyone could have possibly imagined – Beach thinks of an earlier Churchill post on the nineteenth century comparing itself with the twentieth – everyone knew it was […]
