Word: argyrokastron
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...fierce, unequal battle for the air is accompanied in this novel by the battle for the land. War Correspondent Aldridge reports this fighting from personal experience (he was correspondent for North American Newspaper Alliance). Heroic place names of the Greek campaign appear again with the old ring-Argyrokastron, Janina, Larissa, the Pindus, Arta. Greek soldiers, ill-equipped, ill-led, climb slowly down the mountainsides in reluctant retreat. They shoot their pro-Nazi officers who talk of surrender, filter silently into hiding in the forests when their units are shattered. Their tragicomic air ace, Nitralexis, goes out on reconnaissance...
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