Word: blanching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SABRES OF PARADISE (495 pp.)-Lesley Blanch-Viking...
This book's heroes all seem to be sixfoot-three, thundering horsemen, invincible sword fighters and high-bouncing lovers; if the story were fiction, critics could complain that the earth does not breed such men. But Author Lesley Blanch has discovered an episode-Russia's efforts to subdue the Caucasian mountain tribes during the first half of the 19th century -which abounds in authentic hell-and-crinoline raisers, and she describes it with enormous relish. Not much romanticizing is necessary; the source material is generally incandescent...