The Conclusion returns to the need for historians to recognize the topic of cowardice in combat in order to gain a fuller understanding of war. Recovering the complicated histories of the Fire Zouaves ...

To the cowards the brave is sinister. A coward boss or colleague will invariably avenge through intimidation. These are the ones, who you would find disappear first in times of crises. In victory ...

This is, after all, no time for cowardice in the home of the brave. In Timothy Snyder’s book “On Tyranny,” the Yale historian offers readers lessons on how to respond to authoritarianism.