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Greetings! Welcome to the Chateau!

Within its corridors you will find insight into the books I have written, the books I am writing and the books I am thinking about writing. It is also a place where I can offer insights into my favorite authors and – in the case of my game Conqueror: Fields of Victory – I can explain my rules and offer new variants. Scroll down or check the sidebar for my latest posts. Nonfiction: Walls of Men: A Military History of China 2500 B.C. to A.D. 2020 Long Live Death: The Keys to Victory in the Spanish Civil War Fiction: Three Weeks with…
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Starting St. Augustine’s City of God: flawed footnotes found

After a couple of false starts, I’m finally getting around to my intended Lenten reading: St. Augustine’s City of God. I actually started the book some time ago, but was bogged down by the interminable introduction which I decided to skip. I did this because I found a passage noting that Rome fell because it had too many cultures or something. Rome fell for many reasons, and that’s far beyond the scope of a literary introduction. He is addressing Marcellinus, a Roman official who is considering becoming Christian, and one of his tasks is to discredit the pagan claim that…
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