Quite unexpectedly, I found reading this collection of essays -- political, social and, first and last, biographical -- sheer delight. The interplay of men and events is always operating across a sweeping stage of the Holy Land, the Orient, Europe, from Sweden to Spain, England of the dark ages, the Elizabethan period, the rebellion, revolution, etc.
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