William Makepeace Thackeray: True love is better than glory, and books than arms
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war William Makepeace Thackeray: Selections on war ==== William Makepeace ThackerayThe Virginians (James Wolfe, later a general, would die at the Battle of Quebec in 1759) “And glory and honour?” asked Warrington, “are those nothing? and would you give up the […]