Word: cowardly
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...Scapegrace's editor), this yarn is a thorough, almost scholarly pastiche of Victorian lingo and manners. It fairly reeks of historical authenticity-and of blood-for Flashman, in his early 30s, is still his old bully self, a lucky coward and a genial sadist...
ZODIAC AND SWASTIKA: HOW ASTROLOGY GUIDED HITLER'S GERMANY by WILHELM WULFF 192 pages. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan...
...precarious balance of order in his life, and survived his final training. He wondered if his proud endurance of those physical trials was only fear in disguise, if he was desperately ignoring his failure to say a final dramatic no to the war. O'Brien decided he was a coward and boarded a plane for Cam Ranh...
...coward" won seven medals in Vietnam, and, more importantly, survived. O'Brien trudged through swamps, and watched friends and enemies die, witnessed war crimes and simple insults to humanity. His college dialogues on the war were left far behind. " ...No one in Alpha Company knows or cares about the cause or purpose of their war," he wrote. "It is about 'dinks and slopes' and the idea is simply to kill them or avoid them." O'Brien did more avoiding than killing, eventually wangled a job in the rear, and endured Vietnam...
Slothful. There is also more in the endless procession of campaign histories, represented this season by a capable but rather specialized volume, Nazi Victory: Crete 1941. And of course, one genuine clunker, priced at $6.95, from Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. Called Hitler's Last Days, it is the brief but mesmerizingly dull memoir of a minor staff officer named Gerhard Boldt, who, as it turns out, constructs Hitler's very last days from already published sources-since he was not there...