Book review: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

By Russell Wenholz
Updated January 7 2015 - 10:08am, first published December 20 2014 - 11:45pm
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Woodcut c.1496 by Albrecht Durer:
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Woodcut c.1496 by Albrecht Durer:

I was not long out of school when I saw the movie The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. It was ordinary, but several times during the movie there are spectacular, frightening, images of the four horsemen galloping in slow motion across the screen. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are described in the Bible. (Revelations). They represent Plague or Conquest, War, Famine and Death and are usually interpreted as the precursors to the end of the world.

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