After years of teaching 18th century British literature, in 1975 he crossed from academic to public intellectual with The Great War and Modern Memory, a seminal book examining how World War I, by its scope and immense carnage, caused a disillusionment that plagued Western society for decades.

So this is a plot to shield this arch-fiend, and I have detected it. A word from me, and three heads besides his would roll from their shoulders!

Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.

The opium-eating sod sidled off gurgling. He hadn't understood.