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These were among the long-range political consequences of Dday, but all this was largely unknown to the men who bled on Omaha Beach. D-day was first of all a battle between two great forces, and the lessons that it teaches, 40 years later, are fundamentally the lessons that all great battles teach, over and over...
This was the final plan: 58,000 men from the U.S. First Army under General Omar Bradley would attack on the western section, at two strips code-named Omaha Beach and Utah Beach. To the east, a force of 75,000 men, drawn mostly from Lieut. General Sir Miles Dempsey's British Second Army but also including a Canadian division and an assortment of French, Polish and Dutch troops, would invade three adjoining beaches, Gold, Juno and Sword. Some 16,000 paratroopers from the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions would drop in first to guard the western flank against...
...Jackson Turner and the adventure-packed storytelling of Louis L'Amour. He does a better job at the latter. While he makes many interesting observations about the changes the settlement of the frontier will have for South America, the book remains very much a fun read, highly suitable for beach-towel browsing. In what current novel can you meet Robert Suarez, the "Cocaine King of the World," head of a $400 million dollar operation which harvests, refines and exports the leaf, gathering it from the hillsides of Bolivia and transporting it to the skichalets of Aspen and the dorms...
...than 100 helicopters and crews to local police forces to keep watch over the Games, and the L.A.O.O.C. will erect fences and sentry posts around the Olympic Villages where athletes will live. For further security Soviet Olympic officials and coaches would have slept on a ship anchored off Long Beach. The first major assignment of the Pentagon's newly organized hostage rescue team, now training at Quantico, Va., will be to station itself in Orange County during the Olympics, ready to swing into action alongside the Los Angeles Police Department's crack SWAT (special weapons and tactics) team if terrorists...
...money to ship their productions to the U.S. For the CIVIL warS is a magnum opus that outdoes in richness and complexity even Wilson's previous essays in theatrical gigantism, such as The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin (1973) and his best-known work, Einstein on the Beach (1976). Spare and elliptical, yet also bril liantly colorful and chillingly perceptive, the CIVIL warS is a radical concatenation of allusions whose theme is destruction and death but whose message is the importance of civilization and the value of life. It is all summed up in the title: an ironic...