“Of the Wobblies, most probably, but not just them. Of hope, perhaps, that her country might rise to the challenge, might override the legacies of slavery, Indian slaughters, and tenement squalor and actually place itself at the forefront of human… — David Downing Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the way the hopes of something better had become the dread of something worse. News” — David Downing Copy Share Image
“Of the Wobblies, most probably, but not just them. Of hope, perhaps, that her country might rise to the challenge, might override the legacies… — David Downing Copy Share Image
“These past few days I’ve realised—we’re strangers to each other. I feel like I’m standing outside their house and watching them through the window.… — David Downing Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the way the hopes of something better had become the dread of something worse. News” — David Downing Copy Share Image
“the remark of a Middlesex Regiment officer in 1918. “Intelligence services,” the man had said, “are prone to looking up their own arses and… — David Downing Copy Share Image
“Wars between classes might just replace one set of pigs with another, but they had some underlying point to them. Wars between nations, as… — David Downing Copy Share Image
