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...Crossroads. In November, when the British Eighth Army began to roll into Libya, the Italians told Bennie Hermer to prepare to leave for a prison camp in Europe. That night he escaped, and next day he joined advance forces of Montgomery's army pushing toward Benghasi. The day Olda stepped out of the train at Cairo's main station, Bennie arrived at the Cairo hospital from Benghasi...
Back Home. When war came, Bennie Hermer had joined the South African forces and had been sent to the Middle East. In June 1942 he was captured at Tobruk. He was taken to Benghasi to assist Italians and Germans in hospital work. He wrote to Olda all the time. She received two letters, one from the prisoners' camp in Libya, the other marked "War Prison inf Italy...
...modeled, are intact; the legs are gone below the thighs; the lovely, epicene face is turned toward the shoulder. Was Phryne the model? Was the pose inspired by the famous painting by Appeles? All that is known is that a peasant dug it up in a brown field near Benghasi in 1902. Ferargil prices...
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