Word: commandomen
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...Crouchback. It is every bit as good as Men at Arms, whose splendid characterizations and fine writing led many in 1952 to predict that its author had begun the best English fictional account of World War II. Waugh writes of the life and death of ruling-class commandomen with the authority of one who took part in raids on Bardia in Libya and fought in Yugoslavia. His eye for the ridiculous still flashes quick as a pistol. He can still write crushingly of spivvish parvenus and loony Hebridean lairds. But the formerly ferocious satirist continues to broaden and deepen...
...Commandomen searched Gibraltar, came in with disheartening news. Five more of the Rock's historic apes were dead! From 17, the Rock's monkey colony had recently shrunk to eight. Two of the bodies just found were those of Adonis, also called Scruffy, and Antonio. They were rival leaders of the pack, potential fathers of future generations. The bodies were beyond postmortem; there was no way of proving that it was an Axis poison plot...
...patriots (and a fighting handful of the 40,000 Italian soldiers on the island), two French destroyers brought more guns, strong detachments of French commandomen, 40 tough U.S. Rangers. After seven days of savage fighting, hundreds of Germans lay dead, all the way from southern Bonifacio to northern St. Florent. The Nazis lost the port and capital Ajaccio, began disordered retreat to Bastia. All but won for the Allies was an island which offers: 1) five naval ports; 2) three airports; 3) another springboard for invasion...
Lord Louis, 43-year-old, 6-ft.-4-in. second cousin to King George VI, is best known as the Chief of Britain's savage, knife-wielding Commandomen. His title, heretofore: Chief of Combined Operations. As such he directed numberless hit-&-run raids against the coast of Hitler's Europe...
...Algiers was the plan of local attack which the U.S. forces carried out everywhere they landed. Most of their armored, snub-nosed barges from the convoys came, not to the port itself, but to the sandy beaches a few miles from the city. There they disgorged Rangers (U.S. commandomen) for initial landings, infantry, artillery and tanks to consolidate and widen the landings. Their purposes were to pincer the city itself, and to seize Blida and Maison-Blanche, Algiers' two main airdromes...