Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Middleton has plenty to forget. At 25, in the spring of 1939, he joined the London Bureau of the A.P. That fall he was one of the twelve U.S. correspondents assigned to the British Expeditionary Force. From then on, in England, Africa and Europe-ending with Dunkirk; and later, after the Blitz, returning to the Continent for the New York Times, he saw more of the war than most of his colleagues, rapidly built a reputation for courageous and able reporting. He is now the Times's correspondent in Moscow, but Our Share of Night covers only...
...Francisco, where his father was a French consular official. He stayed there long enough to graduate from high school and to pick up an unquenchable enthusiasm for American baseball. He completed his education in England and France and, as a private in the French army, was evacuated from Dunkirk. Charles de Gaulle rescued him from sentry duty outside the French embassy in London, where French sentries had to stand without shelter throughout the worst of the blitz. We got to know him as De Gaulle's in telligent, well-informed, fair-minded liaison man with the English language press...
...coverage of Dunkirk and Dieppe was so good that Raymond Daniell, chief of the Times's London Bureau, hired him away. Daniell sent him to North Africa, where Middleton's analysis of the tangled Darlan-Giraud crisis was from the first surprisingly mature and shrewd. His up-front combat stories showed a reportorial eye, a literary...
Many a World War II Tommy learned his social and political ABCs from ABCA (the Army Bureau of Current Affairs). ABCA started after Dunkirk, when British troops had a lot of time on their hands, and needed a mental pick-me-up. Slick pamphlets crammed with hard facts were sent to platoon leaders, with orders to hold bull sessions about them. ABCA did far better than anything the U.S. devised to tell soldiers what the shooting was about...
Thirty million other Britons, straining to shake off the psychological soot of war, were set for a whopping vacation binge. Brighton, finally rid of barbed wire and pillboxes, was triumphantly ready for the Easter trade. Yachts and motorboats, many of them veterans of Dunkirk, were fought over by sea-hungry landlubbers. Butlin's popular seaside camps, the workingman's country clubs, had more customers than they could handle. While most people wanted to get out of the city, some provincials wanted to get into it: Thomas Cook & Son offered an eight-guinea ($34) junket to London, complete with...