Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ireland, which occupies a strategic spot on the battlefield of the Atlantic, has long feared a Nazi invasion. Last week she was caught by another invasion, equally mimical to Britain...
...thought of Sammy Glick," he reflects, "rocking in his cradle of hate, malnutrition, prejudice, suspicions, amorality, the anarchy of the poor; I thought of him as a mangy little puppy in a dog-eat-dog world. ... I saw Sammy Glick on a battlefield where every soldier was his own cause, his own army and his own flag, and I realized that I had singled him out not because he had been born into the world any more selfish, ruthless and cruel than anybody else, even though he had become all three, but because in the midst of a war that...
...Portable X-ray equipment which can be set up on a battlefield in ten minutes to locate bullets and shell fragments in wounded soldiers. Westinghouse is building these machines for the U. S. Army...
...fought he was chafing at a desk in Richmond, where he had been left by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson might have been the Wavell of Manassas I. He vainly tried to persuade Beauregard, Johnston and Davis, who were conducting a post-mortem on the battlefield, to push on after the retreating Federals...
Edgar Snow is a first-class journalist and his China is a grisly and exciting place. His Cook's tour of the Asian battlefield leaves no corpse unturned. It ranges from the insane theatricality of Shanghai's bombing to the way the Japanese hang Chinese buffaloes alive over fires, slicing and eating them as they bellow. The Battle for Asia brings Red Star Over China up to date. And as with his famed account of the Eighth Route Army Journalist Snow still finds his most exciting stones among China's Communists. He also shares some of their...