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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whoever else buys this book, one copy will almost certainly be bought by the NKVD, Russia's secret police. It will be sent to Moscow to take its place in the vast NKVD archives beside the French edition, Vingt Ans au Service de I'U.R.S.S. (1939) of which this is an English amplification. In the NKVD's dossier, under the entry "Alexander Barmine, traitor, renegade, former Brigadier General of the Red Army, former Soviet chargé d'affaires at Athens," will appear a new entry: "author of One Who Survived." This book will...
...them, said Oliva-Roget, was Colonel William Frank ("Pete") Stirling, who, during the last war, was the good right hand of the late, famed T. E. Lawrence ("of Arabia"). Oliva-Roget said that Colonel Stirling was now known as "I'homme au chien" because, in full uniform, he walked the streets of Damascus with a big black...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor, bidding farewell to the people of the Bahamas in a joint three-minute broadcast, made a promise: "You have not seen the last of us ... au revoir...
...outfit and general good humor man, and Miss O'Brien goes along as mascot. There are frequent syrupy interludes of worry about Joe, Miss Allyson's husband who is missing in the Pacific, but there are also magnificent renditions of Handel's "Messiah" under the baton of Iturbi, and "Au Clare de Lune" by Larry Adler with his harmonica...
Tragi-comic fantasy by the au thor of Liliom and The Guardsman. A modern Hungarian Munchausen makes himself the hero of every wild, romantic tale he has ever heard, but his own life is more bizarre than his fancies...