Patrick Leigh Fermor: A map covered with the crossed swords denoting battles

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war ==== Patrick Leigh FermorA Time of Gifts Again and again, armies of mercenaries, lugging siege-engines and bristling with scaling ladders, crawled all over this map. The Thirty Years’ War, the worst of them all, was becoming an obsession with me: […]