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...French marched to battle in retreat-like confusion. "A horse collapsed and could not rise again; a tank passed over him. The heavy caterpillar treads cut into his living flesh. Stray cows . . . bellowing with pain .. . ran amidst the tanks, trucks, and cannon. Everybody was looking for everybody else. . . . And no one knew where he was going...
...whole horizon seemed filled with ships. Seventy or eighty ships of all kinds and sizes arrayed in fourteen lines, each of which could have been drawn with a ruler; hardly a wisp of smoke, not a straggler, but all bristling with cannon and other precautions on which I will not dwell...
...three millions-perhaps it may be many more-of human beings to speedy and violent death. . . . Ah, but this time it was not so easy. . . . For the first time Nazi blood has flowed in fearful flood. Perhaps a million and a half, perhaps two millions of Nazi cannon fodder have bit the dust on the endless plains of Russia...
...German High Command reports," said a Red communique, "are Arabian fairy tales." The communique put German losses at more than 1,500,000 casualties, 6,000 tanks, 8,000 cannon, 6,000 planes; Russian losses at 600,000 casualties, 5,000 tanks, 7,000 guns, 4,000 planes...
Gregor is a full-length portrait of an average man in war. He is ably supported by hundreds of sharp details of war, family living, nature, and what female readers like to designate as typically "Russian" scenes: a madly loyal Cossack hanging on to a disabled cannon "like a dangerous pig tied to a log"; Red troops who, with a blaring phonograph on a sledge, gallop round & round the streets of a village; some gruesome close-ups (on both sides) of rape, looting, calm and frantic murder; a soldier trying on some fancy drawers he stole for his wife, catching...