"Blacker, with the exception of Col Everest, was the ablest and most scientific man that ever presided over this expen…"

"Beneath are deposited the remains of Lieut-Colonel Valentine Blacker, Companion of the Bath, of the Light Cavalry on …"

"Altars covered with streams of dried human blood, the stench of which was awful...huge pits forty to fifty feet deep …"

"Every person who was able...indulged in a human sacrifice, and those who could not, sacrificed some animal and left t…"

"Crucifixions, human sacrifices, and every horror the eye could get accustomed to, to a large extent, but the smells n…"

"The size of a deterrent force must be related to the value to an enemy of the prize being protected. For example, sup…"

"When our President first telephoned to Greece and suggested that I should have the great honour of saying a ‘few word…"

"[the sale of his two trunks from the Harrods Depository] 'still aches sometimes, like an old wound in wet weather'"

"Germany! . . . I could hardly believe I was there. For someone born in the second year of World War I, those three sy…"

"It was a time of anxiety and danger; and for our captive, of hardship and distress. During a lull in the pursuit, we …"