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...Humpty Dumpty that plummets in this virtually guaranteed bestseller (Literary Guild selection for June; movie rights sold to Gary Cooper for $85,000) is Trumpet, a magazine suspiciously li late Collier's, on which Theodore White served as a senior writer. Unfortunately...
...played by smooth Financier J. Patrick Lannan, who with other industrialists held debentures convertible into 600,000 shares of common stock at $5 a share. The week Cottier s folded the stock sold for around $5, currently sells for about $25. In the novel Ridge Warren (who little resembles Collier's Chairman-President-Editor Paul Smith) has a potential million-dollar stock option himself and is constantly torn between profit and principle...
...Luftwaffe fail to return the next night? What brought on this particularly savage sortie, the last and worst of the blitz? Collier can only make a guess. The night before, an insomnia-ridden Adolf Hitler had poked irritably at the log fire in his Bavarian mountain-lodge retreat; a captive audience of Nazi underlings yawned in their teacups. Then Hitler's secretary, Martin Bormann, and Pilot Hans Baur brought up the recent British raid on Berlin; was not some reprisal in order? Though every available aircraft was being readied for top-secret Operation Barbarossa (the attack on Russia), Hitler...
Stiff Upper Lip Service. The genesis of the raid seems to be the only assumption in a book crammed with first-rate research; if anything, the spadework is a little too thorough. Collier's "the day that" formula has by now become wearily familiar. His dense, sludgy prose oozes little of the night's blood, sweat and tears, pays only stiff upper lip service to London's assorted heroes; most of them seem as anonymous as the dust that clogged their lungs...
...writer could bungle May 10-11, 1941 completely, and Collier has pages of stirring authenticity. His sense of small drama is sure: pretty Marguerita Stahli, buried alive for 15 long minutes, fearful only that her fiance might have died during the blast (he did); the curiosity of the men in Fighter Command Operations Room as they plot the erratic flight up the North Sea coast of a lone Messerschmitt bearing Deputy Fuehrer Rudolf Hess on his mad "peace mission" to King George VI. Such touches have the gritty reality...