I love history - that should come as no surprise to anyone who knows me or follows me on social media. For me it is not the political events of history that are the focal point, it is the events of the individuals that are the threads that make the patterns. Perhaps governments are at times the result of those patterns but more often than not they are the drivers of another agenda that has direct consequences on the individual. Such is the case in war. Although people enter

I am often asked why I went from history to getting a law degree. Actually, it's not that uncommon for the two fields to merge in a...