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...vivid novel about the Libyan campaign was written by a 35-year-old veteran named Gerald Kersh-in civilian life an author, bouncer, traveling salesman, debt collector and professional wrestler; in World War II a Hemingway-mustached Tommy in Britain's oldest (1650) regiment-of-the-line, the Coldstream Guards. Now Author Kersh has followed up his dusty Faces with a lusty tribute to his famous regiment. The volume combines two books which had been previously published in England. A British critic called the first "one of the best books about soldiering ever written...
Sergeant Nelson of the Guards is part fact, part fiction; part Coldstream history, part Coldstream rag-chewing. It is also the most blood-&-thunder, swashbuckling, superpatriotic book of World War II; an American equivalent might be a history of the U.S. Marine Corps written by General George S. Patton Jr., Margaret Mitchell and Fred Allen. Gerald Kersh's Coldstreamers think they are a match for anything on earth in toughness, discipline and homespun philosophy. Author Kersh thinks...
Fontenoy, Waterloo and Dunkirk. The Coldstream Guards were organized by Oliver Cromwell's famed henchman, Colonel Monck, who taught them "to keep a line, stay unbroken, hold [fire] until the word of command." Nearly a century later, at the Battle of Fontenoy, Coldstream muskets wiped out the entire front line of the French Guards in a single volley. The Guards served with distinction at Waterloo, in the Crimea and in the Boer War. In Nieppe Forest in 1918, a handful of Coldstreamers were ordered to stand up to the great German advance at all costs, and were wiped...
Wartime rookies in the Coldstream Guards are crushed into shape by kipper-complexioned, one-eyed Sergeant Bill Nelson, whose arms are "gnarled as old salami," whose fists protrude "like mallets of black stinkwood," and who sounds off to new recruits like one of Mark Twain's brawny scrappers in Life on the Mississippi...
Killed in Action. William John Robert Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, 27, Protestant husband of ex-Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy's daughter Kathleen (married last May in a Chelsea registry office, without Catholic consent), Captain in the Coldstream Guards, heir to the Duchy of Devonshire; in France. The Marchioness has been in the U.S. since August when her oldest brother, Joseph Jr., was killed in action...