Word: afrika
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Voice. The setting is North Africa, 1942. Shelled out of their halftrack vehicle, four French soldiers flee across the desert. Next day they slip up to a German patrol car and slaughter four men camped on the sand near by. The fifth, an arrogant young Afrika Korps captain (Hardy Kruger), becomes their prisoner...
...guerrilla detachments-one made up of E.D.E.S. nationalists and the other of E.L.A.S. Communists-joined forces long enough to give protective cover to a British demolition team that blew up a railway bridge at Gorgopotamos, 130 miles from Athens, thus halting supplies intended for transshipment to Rommel's Afrika Korps in Libya. In reprisal, 14 Greek hostages were executed by the Italian occupation forces. Ever since, Communists and rightists have argued about whose guerrillas deserved the greater glory at the bridge and in the war generally...
...Sudanese, historically renowned for their martial prowess, revered Abboud as the greatest warrior of them all. Sandhurst-trained, anglicized down to his swagger stick and Bond Street shoes, Abboud in World War II led the Sudan Defense Force into battle against Rommel's Afrika Korps, wound up with two dozen combat ribbons on his chest...
...Uncle Tom." West Coast jazz is no longer an important consideration, but Crow Jim is, especially among the angry young men who are passionately involved in the rise of Negro nationalism. Jazz compositions these days bear titles like A Message from Kenya (Art Blakey), Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston), Africa Speaks, America Answers (Guy Warren), Afro-American Sketches (Oliver Nelson). Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite-We Insist includes tunes like Tears for Johannesburg, a lament for the Africans shot down in the Sharpeville massacre. To younger jazzmen, a great musician like Louis Armstrong is suspect-instead of hopping...
...generals have ever placed any value on one of nature's worst mistakes. In World War II Montgomery bunched his forces at El Alamein in the neck of land between the Mediterranean and the nearly 1,000 ft. drop of the Depression, and thus kept Rommel's Afrika Korps from Suez. The Qattara was worth 200 armored divisions, said Rommel-to the British...