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China's mighty T'ang Dynasty ruled China from the 7th to the 10th century A.D. Its invincible generals vanquished the Tartars and subdued the Turkish tribes to open the camel caravan route across central Asia. Chinese silk merchants returned bringing exotic wares and gifts-fiery Bactrian stallions and two-humped camels, spices from Arabia, rich embroideries from Persia. The capital city of Ch'ang-an was thrown open to foreign traders, to Buddhists, Christians, Manichaeans and Jews alike. All that was rich and rare T'ang artists converted to bear their own vigorous stamp...
...Wilson's live in a rickety three-room house in a company-owned lumber town in north-central Louisiana. Both youths quit school early-Pate in the ninth grade, Wilson in the eighth. They were in the Army at 17, fighting in Korea as infantrymen in the U.S. 7th Division the following year. Both were captured near Chosin Reservoir in December 1950. After that came prison camp, Panmunjom and life under Communism...
...Question. To hold the hill meant shielding the Eighth Army's thin defense line. The brass decided that Pork Chop was worth the price. For three days and two nights, a succession of rifle companies of the U.S. 7th Division slogged into the meat-grinder to counter waves of Chinese reinforcements. Battling for Pork Chop's shattered trenches and bunkers, some 900 Americans and South Koreans were killed or wounded, along with 3,000 Chinese. In 48 hours some 85,000 U.S. artillery rounds, plus uncounted enemy shells, blasted Pork Chop's eroded slopes -a display...
...deficient in fighting experience . . . The Eighth Army was a mobile army, but for lack of manpower, it was compelled to use the implements of mobility simply to sit and survive . . . The fighting which resulted seemed like a deadly form of shadow boxing." Marshall gives a harrowing example: eight 7th Division newcomers went out on patrol one warm night, expecting "no sweat"; all eight were later found dead in a circle, shot in ambush by a foe so close that some victims bore powder burns. Says Marshall: "You can't beat Davy Crockett with a Boy Scout." But many...
...something awkward is ignored, it will go away. Gerald Middleton, handsome, sixtyish and a kind of historian emeritus among English medievalists, has long repressed a suspicion that the 1912 discovery of the Melpham Tomb was a grandiose hoax on a par with Piltdown Man. The remains of a 7th century Christian bishop named Eorpwald had been found in the tomb. But in the coffin rested a shockingly priapic fertility idol. Ever since, disconcerted historians had been trying to adjust their theories to this evidence that the good bishop had relapsed into paganism. But Middleton knows something his fellow medievalists...