@roadriverrail "Letters to a German Friend" are interesting as wartime propaganda within an occupied country. His depiction of the French as slow to violence is a noble ideal, but not quite historically accurate (as I'm sure he knew, given their imperialism and incidents such as the Dreyfus Affair). In some ways, it has the same feel as Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" -- trying to tear down the ideology of the enemy while establishing an ideal for the nation to follow after liberation.