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...trek down from the summit be gan with his all-knowing China stories for the newspaper PM and continued with his World War II pieces in Collier's magazine. He, not events, became his subject. He reported how Hemingway landed on D-day in an LCV(P), and told the commander how to find Fox Green beach. He told how Hemingway forged ahead of the Allied armies with a group of guerrillas. It was Hemingway who liberated Paris and a fair sampling of French wine cellars...
...teau. Normandy. The 6th of June, 1944. Fire bombs explode overhead. Parachutes dot the warm night sky. Below, a captain of the Resistance is locked in combat with a German major. The cause of their quarrel: a woman, naturally. In France, D-day or no Dday, S for sex comes first...
Smelly Mud. D-day in the Delta will bring the American fighting man a set of challenges unique even in Viet Nam. The principal fact of the Delta is water, water everywhere: drowning the great, flat expanses of paddyfields that reach to the horizon, running in brown, lazy fingers through 2,500 miles of navigable canals, tributaries and the Mekong itself. Only long, lush tree lines and the populous villages they shelter break the landscape's monotony, and it is in the tree lines and villages that the Viet Cong are most often found...
...swords, throw the bar farther or wind the horn louder than their fellows-Achilles and Ulysses, Siegfried and Roland, Beowulf and Richard the Lionhearted." Their latter-day American equivalents might be Douglas MacArthur, reconquering the Pacific, true to his vow, "I shall return," and Ike Eisenhower, commanding the massed D-day armies or winning his sweeping 1952 election victory. But it is difficult to imagine Beowulf getting only ten nominating votes as Republican candidate for President (which is what happened to MacArthur), or Roland trying to govern with benign passivity (which is what Ike did during much of his White...
...LAST BATTLE, by Cornelius Ryan. As he proved in his D-day marathon, The Longest Day, the author is a thorough reporter, and his account of the fall of Berlin is an encyclopedic and frequently exciting narrative...