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Faithful Servant. The man who replaces him as Defense Minister is a lesser Soviet war hero, usually ranked fifth in the Red army hierarchy after Marshals Zhukov, Konev, Vasileysky and Sokolovsky. Malinovsky is stubby, barrel-chested and almost two years younger than Zhukov. He fought with a Czarist brigade beside U.S. troops at Saint-Mihiel on World War I's Western front, hurried back after the Revolution to help form soldiers' Soviets in Siberia...
...dividing Europe from Asia. Just across the bay from their landing point were the cliffs of Gallipoli Peninsula, where in World War I the British, French, Australian and New Zealand invaders suffered 250,000 casualties trying valorously but vainly to capture Constantinople and open a supply route to their Czarist allies. Within the game's allotted three days, the Marines seized the road leading to the Dardanelles straits, the goal which the Anzacs of 1915 had glimpsed so briefly from the heights of Chunuk Bair just before Kemal Ataturk launched the counterattack that wrecked the Gallipoli expedition. This time...
...almost every day of his life to bargain with Stalin. Yet he talked freely, never seemed worried lest he commit an indiscretion, cracked irreverent jokes. In 1946 a group of leading officials were sitting in Mikoyan's dacha, a crenelated red brick atrocity created by a 19th century czarist sugar baron. Malenkov's wife began grumbling about how poor and scarce Soviet nylons were. Snapped Mikoyan: "Yes, my dear young lady, but we have plenty of portraits of Stalin...
...basic English. It suits her bare, bleak theme. Her narrator is Erick von Lohmond of the Teutonic gentry. Too young for World War I, he grows up into one of the crudest of civil wars. The Red soldiers who come sweeping through the Baltic birch forests so hate the Czarist military system that when they capture a White officer they nail his hated epaulets to his shoulders or, because the officers had once worn white gloves, flay his hands while he still lives. "Our men were not lacking in invention either," the White narrator laconically admits...
...since the day Marinotti appeared in Milan 28 years ago. Born on the Venetian plains, he had already won a reputation as a hustling textile salesman, first working for Italy's Cascagni Seta mills, where, at 23, he was manager of all the company's mills in Czarist Russia, later as boss of his own worldwide trade corporation. In 1929 Marinotti got a distress call from Societá Nazionale Industria Applicazione Viscosa, onetime shipping company turned textile manufacturer. Snia Viscosa, overcapitalized and overinflated at the 1929 crash, had all but collapsed...