Bersaglieri in Abyssinia. Evelyn Waugh covered the war in Abyssinia for the Daily Mail and defended the Italian invasion on the basis of Abyssinian barbarism and slave-raiding against its neighbors, presenting it as another of the age-old conflicts between civilized nations and the barbarous people who commit predations at their border.
"In every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered..."
- Tacitus, Germania
"One must work in solitude as a man who opens a clearing in virgin forest, sustained by the unique hope that somewhere in its depths, others are working to the same end."
- Ernst Jünger
"I find that I must go handsomely, whatever it costs me, and the charge will be made up in the fruit it brings."
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Bersaglieri in Abyssinia. Evelyn Waugh covered the war in Abyssinia for the Daily Mail and defended the Italian invasion on the basis of Abyssinian barbarism and slave-raiding against its neighbors, presenting it as another of the age-old conflicts between civilized nations and the barbarous people who commit predations at their border.
Far too few of them unfortunately.
Those feathered hats were pretty pissweak in WW2 Fogey. Don't tell me you're a wog on top of all your other objectionable attributes ?
BTW I know you'll flush this comment - but I also know you'll read it - and it will annoy you.
Cheers Poddy.
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