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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At the end, doomed from the first to failure by Author Sitwell's indifference to the search, the hero finds himself back home. Was he really on a Cook's Tour of many possible purgatories, or was it all a dream? Apparently it was no dream. When Sitwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Way to Nowhere | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Pax Stellarum. Author Clarke has all the qualifications to keep the 18 short stories and two short novels in this omnibus in far-out orbit. He took first-class honors in physics at London University, headed the British Interplanetary Society, now, at 41, turns out space gas between star-watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Escape from Gravity | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Leaping from 1,000 transports, pouring from 500 crash-landed gliders, 34,000 U.S. and British airborne troops slammed at seven river and canal crossings between the Maas and the lower Rhine, starting Sunday, Sept. 17, 1944. In the biggest airborne attack of all time, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bloody Market Garden | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Panzers & Patients. Surgeon Paul's outfit set up shop right in the middle of flaming Arnhem in St. Elizabeth's Hospital, its walls hung with red crosses of torn sheets and red flannel bandages. As the battle raged through the streets outside, Paul's team performed 80...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bloody Market Garden | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

On D-plus-eight, the battle still hammering in the outskirts, the British doctors got their last breath of hope when they looked out of an attic window across the eight flat miles that separated them from the main body of Montgomery's bogged-down army. They saw "an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bloody Market Garden | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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