When Did The Practise Of Allowing An Army That Had Taken A City A Day Of Rape And Pillage?

[sandyRoe]

The fall of Berlin to the Red Army near the end of WW2, maybe? But apart from that?

[Old_Geezer]

So women are always the victims in war, implying men are not. Most are victims when caught up in a war. Not a good idea to continue pushing this evil men/poor women view.

[murraymints]

OG..of course men will and continue to be innocent victims...however women are always used in these circumstances as sign / statement of supremacy and dominance..to insult male pride etc..agree ..both genders are victims..only one is used against the other to further demonstrate supremacy and dominance..

[Old_Geezer]

Being led away and shot seems to demonstrate supremacy and dominance to me. I'd rather not have my gender demonised as it includes me. It's something I've come across often in life ever since I was 0. Cheers.

[Hypognosis]

For clarification, the shooting of the men was the prelude to the raping of the women, so it wasn't demonstrating their superiority to the men, it was just taking advantage of the fact the women were now unprotected.

Yazidis are a different faith and the women were forced to convert to Islam. If the cultures have refused to intermarry with outsiders for 1400 years then this is both genetic and cultural genocide.

[Marshwarble]

Molesworth was written by Geoffrey Willians. Searle was only the illustrator.

[sandyRoe]

Wasn't their a man with one leg called Grimes in one of Waugh's books? He was in education, too.
I'll add the Molesworth books to my read list.

[sandyRoe]

Yes. In Decline and Fall.

[Hypognosis]

Thanks Marshwarble.

Just goes to show how memorable the artwork was. The stories and writing style are, more or less, unique. I wouldn't mind betting that nobody attempted the boarding school milieu again, until JK Rowling. It's such an alien world that it seems to fascinate anyone who has never lived that experience.

[Peter Pedant]

@sandyRoe //Who was Moleworth, an underappreciated Gibbons?//

Molesworth; a character from Ronald Searle's "Down with Skule"

jesus hypo stop taking life so seriously
Molesworth as evry fule kno had to take a history exam which he includes in the boke

Did the Germans ?
and he answers it, in terms of Did the Germans what ...... ?

It clicks later that this question may be linked to ...... invade Poland
and Molesworth comments that he neither knows nor cares ....

So I think Sandy's question on the twentieth century Gibbon is a mot juste .....

I agree dropping the 's' may have misled people