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...poems and stories, notably The Open Boat, The Blue Hotel and The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. Written when Crane was 22, The Red Badge was a brilliantly intuitive study of war and the emotions of men in combat, by a man who had yet to see a battlefield...
...with a neighboring parochial school called St. Anthony's. The St. Anthony's boys jumped us on the way home from school; we threw snowballs at the stained-glass windows in St. Anthony's. It was good clean fun and everybody enjoyed it. Hudson Park was the official battlefield for the war on weekday afternoons...
...beings for service in a new and stronger people's army. Tell them to write you about their experiences as tractor drivers, factory hands or members of the collective farms. If your girl friend will prove her truthfulness and determination on the economic battlefront and you on the battlefield, there will grow from this bond the new kind of love...
...still larger battlefield-the world -Ho's victory had a grim meaning. The bulk of France's army was already in Indo-China; more troops would have to be sent there to deal with the new threat. France was a vital link in European rearmament and France could not make its essential contribution to the defense of Europe as long as its army was tied up in Indo-China. A quick victory over Communism in Indo-China was necessary if Europe was to be made defensible...
Napoleon remained a logician, in his fashion, to the bitter end. Searching the past from St. Helena, he found a marvelously neat reason for his defeat at Waterloo. He attributed it largely to the stupidity of the Duke of Wellington, who selected a battlefield from which it was impossible to effect a retreat. Hence, Wellington & Co. had no option but to go on holding the field even after they had lost it. "Oh, strange irony of human affairs!" murmurs the exiled logician as he looks back on the blundering British...