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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then advanced. Their 32-year-old general, attired in a splendid new uniform and waving a cane, was an easy target for snipers. Just before victory was certain he fell, a musket ball through his lung. (Hours later, the Marquis de Montcalm also died of his wounds.) It was. Author Hibbert says, the death Wolfe always wanted; months before, he had written in a clumsy paraphrase of Horace: "Those who perish in their duty and in the service of their country, die honourably...
...Author Humes does his work in flashbacks, not the smooth ones of a Marquand, but brusque revelations carved out like sections of a monument to doom. Unfortunately, he also chooses to interpolate interior monologues, which prove only that he has not read James Joyce well enough. But these form a minor irritant compared to the book's merits -clean writing, crisp description, and a surprisingly accurate sense of the bitter relationships, mostly unspoken, between the enlisted Negroes and their commander. Author Humes is no optimist. Every page of Men Die implies an underlying sense of doom for mankind...
Some of the episodes are clearly autobiographical. Like Serezha, for instance, Author Pasternak was once a tutor in the home of a well-to-do merchant. As a tutor, Serezha is plagued less by his duties than by the drives of his own masculinity. He has tortured Platonic talkfests with Anna Arild, companion to the mistress of the house; Anna is a strait-laced Danish widow who interprets Serezha's every comment as a prelude to seduction. Finally, sexual tension drives him into the arms of the town prostitute, a "hoarse beauty" of an earthiness so casual that, "while...
...followers, mostly brigands and landless peasants, build the new city of Rome on the left bank of the Tiber, Romulus keeps on talking. He is, he assures them, the son of the war god Mars, and was suckled by a she-wolf as a baby. As presented by British Author Duggan, that veteran rewrite man of ancient history (Winter Quarters, King of Pontus), Rome's founder is a born con man, but one who believes his own line of patter...
...sanctimoniousness; they surround him in a fog and hack him to pieces (Duggan discards the legend that Romulus ascended to heaven in a cloud). The novel ends with the gentle Sabine Numa Pompilius taking over the vacant throne of the young city in 715 B.C. Prolific Author Duggan has a legion of books and some 1,200 years of Roman history still awaiting...