On the Impact of War Time

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Jane Kamensky, On the Impact of War Time. Wall Street Journal, Oct 29, 2016 (in the column "Five Best" every Saturday).
http://www.wsj.com/articles/jane-kamensky-1477670708

Note:
(1)
(a)
(i) Douglas Adair and John A Schultz (eds), The Origins & Progress of the American Rebellion; A Tory view. Stanford University Press, 1961
www.sup.org/books/title/?id=2405
("it is a historic event widely applauded by Americans today as both necessary and desirable. But one consequence of this happy unanimity is that the chief losers of the War of Independence—the American Loyalists—have fared badly at the hands of historians. This explains, in part, why the account of the Revolution recorded by self-professed Loyalist and Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, Peter Oliver, has heretofore been so routinely overlooked.  Oliver's manuscript, entitled 'The Origins & Progress of the American Rebellion,' written in 1781, challenges the motives of the founding fathers, and depicts the revolution as passion, plotting, and violence")
(ii) The above link displays the book over, top of which are red coats, with a weird flag. Most likely the flag is stylized and did not exist. See Flags of the American Revolution. Wikipedia Commons, undated.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wi ... American_Revolution
(b) Siege of Yorktown (Sept 28 - Oct 19, 1781)
(c) "Oliver fled to London on the eve of American independence."

Peter Oliver (loyalist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Oliver_(loyalist)
(1713 – 1791; born in Boston)

Quote: "Oliver departed from the colonies when the British evacuated troops and Loyalists from Boston in March 1776. * * * Oliver sailed first to Nova Scotia and later to England and lived there until his death [in] 1795.* * * Oliver articulates the views of many Loyalists, especially those who were born in the Colonies and lost everything when they fled to Great Britain.

(d) "Seeing the revolution through Oliver's looking glass [ie, mirror] offers a potent reminder that one man's tea party is another's terror."

(2)
(a) The Prelude
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prelude
(is widely regarded as Wordsworth's greatest work; was intended as the prologue to a long three-part epic and philosophical poem, The Recluse)
(b) William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)
(c) "As the poet slunk back to England in late 1792, blood sluiced among the cobbles beside the guillotine."
(i) slink (vi; past tense and past participle: slunk or slinked): "to go or move stealthily or furtively (as in fear or shame) : STEAL [vi]"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slink
(ii) sluice (vi)
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sluice

(3) Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier. The Century Co, 1918.
(a) "In the century since World War I, the shell-shocked Tommy who returns from France to find his sceptered isle forever changed has become a stock character."
(i) Tommy (n; etymology): "a British soldier"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Tommy
(ii) This Sceptred Isle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Sceptred_Isle
(section 1 Title)
(b) "Unlike her more famous male contemporaries, [book author] West never endured the trenches; her war is a rent in time."
(i)
(A) "Slipped Through a Rent in Time" is a pattern designed by James Lewis Hamilton.
(B) Tony Norris, Peeking Through a Rent in Time; You've Got a Friend. Flagstaff Live!, Apr 2, 2015
is an essay.
(ii) rent (n): "an opening made by or as if by rending"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rent

(5) Persepolis
(a) The book title is a ruin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis
(b) "The adults, anti-royalists turned anti-fundamentalists, oscillate between hope and terror"
(i)
(ii) The "adults" is the subject. The verb is "oscillate."
(iii) turn (vi): "5b(3) :  to become someone or something specified by change from another state :  change into <turn pro> <doctors turned authors>"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/turn