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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Years of research among troops and officers, both Allied and German, add up to a battle picture that is gripping in detail yet firmly held in the frame of strategy.
THE ARMADA, by Gorreff Mattingly. What is sometimes called one of the decisive battles of the world, the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 by Sir Francis Drake, settled almost nothing and was about as ineptly fought as any large-scale naval engagement in modern history. This account of...
THE HOUSE OF INTELLECT, by Jacques Barzun. An uneven but provocative attack on mass culture and mass education, in the name of old-fashioned discipline and logic.
ELIZABETH THE GREAT, by Elizabeth Jenkins. A string of brilliant miniatures of the Queen who said of herself: "I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king."
Victorian at heart, Britain's "major minor poet" sings (warmly) of homely, gaslit old England and (satirically) of homely, neonlit new England.