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...dark at last in the Kyrenia Mountains of Cyprus and the British Commando officer has no appetite for the task he must now perform. He assembles his squad for a patrol, but his mind is on another night like this, 14 years ago. Then he was the hunted, a fugitive from the Nazis who had poured into Greece. Three young Greeks sheltered him, then carried him in a tiny caique away from Greece to safety. Now the officer is the hunter, and it is time to hunt down Greeks as brave and as passionate for freedom as those who saved...
Randolph shone most brightly in a recklessly courageous military career: he jumped into Yugoslavia as a parachutist with a Commando unit, also served in North Africa and Italy, reached the rank of major. He covered the Korean war for the Daily Telegraph, managed to rub most of his fellow correspondents the wrong way until the day he returned from a patrol action with a half-dollar-sized shrapnel hole in his shin and coolly dictated a dispatch...
...Louisville, the local press found a modest hero who for six months had seemed to be no more to his neighbors than just another fellow with five kids. Charles Edward ("Commando") Kelly, who killed 40 Germans in World War II and won the Congressional Medal of Honor, explained: "I just don't go around telling people who I am." The $40,000 he earned from magazine, book and movie rights for his wartime story has all been spent. He now makes $60 to $100 a week driving a power roller over blacktop being laid at a nearby airport...
...sentries checked in at the guardhouse on their rounds, the intruders overpowered them and trussed them up. "Consider yourselves prisoners of war," said the leader of the commando gang. The raiders were members of the Irish Republican Army, that outlawed, audacious nationalistic group which, in prewar days, used to plant time bombs in the British mails to reinforce its demand for the unification of Ireland. Swiftly, they went to work, loading rifles, Sten guns, light machine guns and 200,000 rounds of ammunition into a fleet of cars that rolled in through the main gate, then vanished into the night...
Officers and Gentlemen, by Evelyn Waugh. The deft and relentless British satirist writes his second fine war novel around the exploits and disillusionments of Guy Crouchback, commando officer and "Christian gentleman" (TIME, July...