Redoubt

By Deane Barker • • tags: definition •
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Definition: a small, defensive fortification

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From Kingmakers:

More unusually, accompanied by his father, he also viewed deranged inmates in a Damascus asylum and sipped tea with Druze sheiks in their Lebanese redoubt.

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In the spy novel Eurostorm:

He had no idea what was unfolding up in that mountain redoubt, but he was damned well going to find out.

Links from this – Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East April 21, 2023
I eventually abandoned this book, but I read quite a bit of it. What I came to appreciate is that history of the Middle East and history of the British Empire are wildly intertwined. The British were all over that region, and when they left, they made some attempts to split it up, but then left...
Links from this – Eurostorm May 9, 2023
i belong to a facebook group called spybrary , which is for people who like spy novels and movies and such. Another member of the group is a guy named Payne Harrison , who I came to understand is a spy novelist. He had mentioned that he was annoyed at a movie called SAS: Red Notice because the...