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...confusion of the Crimean War, a bearded, solemn-eyed young Briton jogged along with the armies in a boxlike wagon marked "Photographic Van." He was Roger Fenton, the first war photographer in history, and he succeeded in catching the authentic mood of Crimea (see opposite page) with the same craftsman's touch that Mathew Brady displayed later in the U.S. Civil War. Last week many a Briton was discovering Fenton's genius in a photographic supplement of The Cornhill, literary quarterly founded by William Makepeace Thackeray...
...Must Remember." At 33, she took charge of a home for "Sick Gentlewomen in Distressed Circumstances." From then on, God would not wait for Englishmen to muddle through. Despite the Colonel Blimps of the medical corps, she cleaned up the army's medical pestholes in the Crimea. Part sanitary officer, part supply sergeant, and part saint...
...reminded one student of Tristram Shandy's garrulous Uncle Toby-a "vast, benevolent and harmless Uncle Toby, leaning on his stick . . . and wheezing out his stories of Henry James as Toby might have spoken of Marlborough. His books seemed [to us] like medals achieved, perhaps, in the Crimea; and we read Auden, Kafka, Evelyn Waugh...
Last fall the new East German government made Hermann a Deputy Prime Minister. Trude was delighted. She made no secret of her ambition to be the First Lady of Germany. The high point for the Kastners was a Russian invitation to a vacation in the Crimea...
...summer of 1940, by then in command of an army of his own, Manstein broke through the French line on the Somme. When Hitler launched his attack on Russia, it was Manstein who commanded the southern German army group, won a string of victories in the Ukraine and the Crimea. Hamstrung during the long retreat after Stalingrad by frantic orders from the Führer, he broke with Hitler, lived in retirement while the Allies smashed their way into Germany...