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“... there is a connection to the world of fashion. But the Burberry Travel Satchel? The Burberry Field Sneaker? The idea of the nomad seemed to confuse the models and actors in the front row at the Burberry show. To them, the nomadic instinct referred to that strange feeling that occasionally overcomes one on the way down New Bond Street, when, just for a ...”

“... as MI5 and MI6 had to be kept so secret; MI5 remained officially secret for 80 years. Christopher Andrew has another explanation, however. It was just a ‘taboo’, he writes (quoting the historian Michael Howard), like ‘intra-marital sex’. Everyone knew it went on, and was ‘quite content that it should, but to speak, write or ask questions about ...”

“... which, legend says, the spirits of faithful cavalrymen retire on fulfilling their earthly duties, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig might sympathise. In a war of epic proportions, waged against a tenacious and skilful adversary, Haig delivered decisive victory. But as a guarantor of lasting personal glory, victory did not suffice. Throughout the ordeal of ...”

“... episode, Bloom wanders down Grafton Street, sees a woman’s fat ankles, prices a pair of field glasses, wonders if he was happier in the past, feels hungry, goes into the wrong eating place, finds it disgusting, enters Davy Byrne’s pub (a ‘moral pub’) and orders a cheese sandwich and a glass of burgundy, before getting into a conversation with ...”

“... all the better to settle down to a full 90 minutes with Ally’s Tartan Army, now taking the field in Mendoza. A full cast of Ayrshire Oompa-Loompas (myself at the head) was then marched upstairs to a requisitioned boxroom, where several rounds of pass-the-parcel proceeded without the aid of oxygen. I managed to eat an entire Swiss roll by myself and ...”

“... sometimes for dishonesty or moral turpitude. Only once, however, has a president fired his senior field commander during wartime for blatant insubordination. As a chapter in the history of US civil-military relations, the Truman-MacArthur controversy is seemingly sui generis, but to treat it as such, as Brands does, is to miss its larger significance. Ending ...”

“... increasingly asymmetric. The typical armed conflict today no longer pits like against like – field army v. field army or battle fleet v. battle fleet – and usually there is no longer even the theoretical prospect of a decisive outcome. In asymmetric conflicts, combatants employ violence indirectly. The aim is not to ...”

“... There’s a certain sort of person who will take a flashlight and go into a field of corn in the dark, but they only exist in the movies. I always think of those characters when I think of movie people in general: even in what is called real life, where people tend to have opinions and heart conditions and mortgages, film directors are largely unreal people who behave in unnatural ways ...”

“... in Glasgow at the end of 48 hours. ‘Items of value such as Documents, Jewellery, Cameras and Field Glasses must be carefully packed and despatched as a “Value” parcel.’ If the item was a coat ‘in good condition’, it had to be wrapped in paper and have a label attached to the right-hand sleeve. T.H. Hollingsworth, the commercial ...”

“... he is still concerned with the writer’s obligation to recognise and resist a ‘gravitational field’, but this field is identified with the negotium or business of practical life, not with original sin. Admirers of Hill’s poetry will find much in these essays of relevance to his own poetic technique, in particular ...”

“... therefore appreciative when the Russians revealed at Tehran that they had 330 divisions in the field. As it happened, the information was false: the Red Army had well over four hundred and fifty divisions in action at that time. But Stalin had no desire to diminish his friends’ enthusiasm for the invasion of France. After Kursk the German front was ...”

“... from Wallace’s own account set alongside commentary based largely on her experiences as a field botanist in South America. Here we see him developing his distinctive professional characteristics. The man who would subsequently make major contributions to biogeography – the study of the geographical distribution of living things – was already ...”

“... Court Road up to the old Spanish Bar in Hanway Street and is about the size of a football field. What I mainly saw were white and orange-hatted men lifting insulation blocks with the help of a giant crane. The building site is surrounded with the usual Keep Out signs, but I sneaked past and saw layers of London, some of it looking like the streets ...”

“... assets have been frozen. Meanwhile, the bricklayers and bungalow-builders of Britain are having a field day. Bob Bull, the second highest new entry on the Rich List at £1.9 billion, has a mother and an ex-wife from what he calls ‘the travelling fraternity’. Bob now has a blonde Norwegian fiancée, Sara, who, he reports, ‘is like a ten or an ...”

“... Sands, unravelled German plans for the invasion of England. Within a few months, Le Queux had got Field-Marshal Lord Roberts and Harmsworth to believe there were 50,000 German waiters spying in London. No, 80,000 German soldiers, said Roberts, employed mostly on the railways. No, 350,000 German soldiers, said Colonel Driscoll DSO, working as moles. The King ...”