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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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This Lent my parish is offering a Vespers service on Thursday evenings during Lent. I’d been meaning to go, and finally was able to make it tonight. It was quite nice. It is part of the Liturgy of the Hours, a daily regimen of song and prayer that goes back centuries. It was almost entirely sung, both from the presiding priest and the congregants, and at time we alternated verses, so one half said a verse, and the other replied. We sang Psalms and Gospel readings, the Canticle of Mary, and concluded with the Our Father in Latin and a…