In a mud compound in the village of Sherwangai, troops displayed some of the spoils of war.
In these peaceful days the Russians do not have the gall to say that the art works were the spoils of war.
Accusations that tribal leaders engage in nepotism fall on deaf ears, as the Indians lived for centuries by sharing the spoils of war or hunting with family members.
When the Catholic Habsburgs defeated the Protestant Palatine Elector Frederick V in 1620, they reduced Heidelberg Castle to ruins and carried off the contents of the library as spoils of war - by this time totalling over 3, 500 manuscripts and 13, 000 printed works - to the Vatican Library in Rome where they remain to this day.
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" To save for Halliburton the spoils of the war, they actually issued a memorandum from the Defense Department saying, "If you weren't with us in the war, don't bother applying for any construction.
China believes the islands were annexed by Japan as spoils of the 1895 Sino-Japanese War.
The second had a different result after the Soviet Union sent the Red Army into Manchuria to claim territorial spoils from a fatally crippled Imperial Japan at the conclusion of World War II.
The irony here, if irony is the right word, is that the Turkish state that I was describing in "Spoils of War" I thought had changed.
Here, Mr. Edsel works the phones, appealing to the better angels of veterans who are holding on to spoils of war, perhaps even trying to sell them.
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Mr. JOHN TIRMAN (Author, "Spoils of War"): Now it is some of these things that the state is objecting to, the insulting of Ataturk, the likening of him to Mussolini, the criticism of Turkey's extreme forms of nationalism.
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