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...Gettysburg battlefield the dogwood and redbud trees were tipped with green; robins and bluebirds sang in their branches. In the Gettysburg Soldiers' National Cemetery, buds were close to bursting on giant azaleas and big tulip trees...
...nevertheless could scowl like the Leader, could brood like the Leader. He hated degenerate art and had destroyed several canvases with his own hands." Tonder was "a bitter poet who dreamed of perfect, ideal love of elevated young men for poor girls. ... He longed for death on the battlefield. . . . He even had his dying words ready." Only Colonel Lanser "knew what war really is in the long run. Lanser had been in Belgium and France 20 years before and he tried not to think what he knew -that war is treachery and hatred, the muddling of incompetent generals, the torture...
...developed in the midst of internal and external strife. England was living dangerously when Shakespeare was composing his sonnets and writing his plays; the tumult of battle runs through much of his work. While Louis XIV ruined France financially in his desperate bid for glory on the battlefield, Moliere wrote his brilliant social comedies. These and other great playwrights through the ages wrote on the problems of their times, but they saw further than the playwrights of today. Shakespeare put his themes on the level of universality, not basing them on day-to-day issues that fluctuated waywardly...
However the bombings helped shipping to Africa, it was too late to help one big chunk of Rommel's Army. Last week, 5,500 Axis troops in the narrow canyon of Halfâya Pass, isolated in a bomb-torn pocket on the eastern edge of the desert battlefield, gave up. Dusty, thirsty, hungry and 2,200 miles from their main body, they ran up the white flag, surrendered unconditionally to Major General Pierre de Viller's South African and Free French forces...
...battlefield of World War II has been more often contested than the 100-mile arc that fans north of Changsha, mid-China communications junction. Three times in three years the Japanese have slashed their way down from the Yangtze to fail almost at the gates of the city's smoke-stained shell...