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...WHATEVER COST, by R. W. Thompson (215 pp.; Coward-McCann; $3.50), tells the story of the famed 1942 raid against the German-held port of Dieppe, in which 6,100 officers and men (mostly Canadians) started out and less than a third returned. For months, reconnaissance aircraft had surveyed German defense, but when the raid started, German artillery slid out of hideaways in the cliffs, poured shells point-blank into men and landing craft. The "average life" of the invaders on the beach was "measured in a handful of seconds." Author Thompson, a British war correspondent, ably describes "the shuddering...
This book might have borrowed its title more appropriately from Noel Coward's World War II ditty, Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans. Though Novelist Habe (real name: Jean Bekessy) is Hungarian-born, he peddles the familiar made-in-Germany apologia that most Germans were as innocent as the children of Hamelin town, and that only the wicked Pied Piper of Berchtesgaden seduced them into evil ways. More surprising. Novelist Habe, who rose to the rank of major in the U.S. Army, was decorated, and served with the occupation forces, argues that the Americans...
...Perhaps I Was a Coward." In the next office, another inspector questioned an aging woman in a shabby black overcoat. She was a spinster, a piano teacher. How and why had she fled to Austria? Her answer was confused: she had never been mistreated; she had simply been afraid. The inspector looked at her thoughtfully. Down went his stamp...
...inspector's eyes narrowed. Had the man taken part in the Budapest revolt? The man looked at his wife. She looked at him. They shared a mutual agony. Whispered the man: "I stayed with my wife in our flat. Perhaps I should be ashamed. Perhaps I was a coward." This was truth, the truth itself. The inspector stamped the papers...
...What shall we call him? Coward, assassin, savage, murderer of women and babies? Or shall we consider them all as embodied in the word fiend, and call him Lincoln, the Fiend...