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Duncan Kyle writes thinking man's thrillers (The Suvarov Adventure, Whiteout!) that invariably become bestsellers in Britain, and for good reason: they combine all too human characters, masterly plotting and impeccable research. Black Camelot is all Kyle guile. The novel is set in the waning months of World War II, when the Third Reich's slimier survivors are engaged in a last-ditch struggle...
...BLACK CAMELOT by Duncan Kyle St. Martin's Press; 277pages...
...hrer Franz Rasch, a much decorated Waffen SS commando. Assigned to deliver the lists in Stockholm, he is betrayed by his bosses. His trail leads to neutral Ireland and England and finally back to Germany. There the disillusioned Rasch attempts to capture vital files from Schloss Wewelsburg, the Black Camelot that Himmler assembled as a Teutonic perversion of King Arthur's court. In one of the best siege narratives since The Guns of Navarone, Rasch and other embittered SS men infiltrate the monstrous castle at the same time that it is being destroyed on Himmler's orders...
Befitting an event commemorating Harvard's expanded commitment to train professional public servants, the political elite of Harvard, Massachusetts and Camelot were in attendance. So were thousands of students, some on one side of the barricades gawking at celebrities, some on the other protesting the naming of the school's library after America's most effective corporate booster of racial oppression in South Africa...
...current media Schlesinger's book has received, at best, mixed reviews. He is called a "court historian of Camelot," and his remembers of RFK are called a view through the "rheumy eyes of an old Cold War liberal." It is a shame, many write, that such a wealth of information about Kennedy had to come from the typewriter of such a loyal adherent of the clan. That Kennedy was an idealist, they don't dispute. But they resent Schlesinger's portrait of Kennedy as an ideal idealist--an untainted saint. Sure, Schlesinger received a Pulitzer Prize for history...