Amatsia from Oxford

Just finished reading Life and Loves – what a fascinating book and what a delightful person!
Doesn’t his objection to the Boer war in volume 4 remind us of the arguments heard today over the Iraq fiasco? A major superpower engages in an expensive and immoral adventure because of one person’s determination to conclude an ‘unfinished business’, and… well, because they can! There is of course the bad guy – his loathing of The Kaiser (and putting part of the blame on him) is not far removed from our own attitude to Saddam.
As is often the case, people rarely reminiscent on anything that happened to them after the age of 50. We learn therefore nothing of his experiences during the Great War, which I understand from this site, were interesting enough, or indeed about his friendship with Oscar Wilde. So much for his ‘life’!