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Arabian Motorcycle Adventures review: enthralling and constantly surprising

Worryingly, every soldier this American-turned-Libyan-rebel meets thinks he’s in a war movie

7 February 2015

9:00 AM

7 February 2015

9:00 AM

There were great numbers of young men who had never been in a war and were consequently far from unwilling to join in this one.(Thucydides, 5th century BC)

I love that quote, inscribed on the walls of the Imperial War Museum, because it tells you so much both about the reason wars happen and about the nature of men.

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