Beyond Caricature and Corruption: Hermann Göring, the Third Reich’s Mark Antony
A Book Review of Göring: A Biography by David Irving. How the struggle of Hitler’s Reichsmarschall between honor and vice contributed to the Third Reich’s fall.
Tag: Rome
Book Review: Religion and the Rise of Western Culture by Christopher Dawson
“The importance of these centuries…is not to be found in the external order they attempted to create, but in the internal change they brought about in the soul of Western man—a change which can never be entirely undone expect by the total negation or destruction of Western man himself.”
– Christopher Dawson
Book Review: The Making of Europe by Christopher Dawson
“For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.”
– Pericles, “Funeral Oration”
Book Review of A History of Philosophy, Vol. I: Greece and Rome by Fr. Fredrick Copleston, S.J.
“And a vision was shewed to Paul in the night, which was a man of Macedonia standing and beseeching him, and saying: Pass over into Macedonia, and help us.”
– Acts 16:9
The Death of Saint Louis IX
“Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.”
– Psalms 30:6
Book Review: The Age of Martyrs by Abbot Giuseppe Ricciotti
“Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: and give praise to the remembrance of his holiness.”
– Psalm 96:12
Book Review: The Confessions of Saint Augustine
“Thou touchedst me, and I burned for Thy peace.” – St. Augustine
Book Review: History of the Byzantine State by George Ostrogorsky
“Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.”
– 1 Peter 2:17
Book Review: The Aeneid by Virgil
“Be happy, friends; your fortune is achieved,
While one fate beckons us and then another.”
– Aeneid III. 655-656.
Book Review of Jerome: Select Letters
“Nothing is happier than the Christian, for to him is promised the kingdom of heaven: nothing is more toil-worn, for every day he goes in danger of his life.”
– St. Jerome