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...wildly disparate group of people, traveling the Mediterranean on a cruise ship called Europa, disembark in Crete to explore a labyrinth advertised as the mythic one of the fabled Minotaur. There is a lady missionary, a male medium, an archaeologist, an artist, a young girl clerk, and a jolly middle-aged couple who won the trip as a prize in a newspaper competition. A landslide cuts them off from the outside world. Several of them die, a few manage to return to everyday life, and two of them are transported to a peculiar, bucolic, almost supernatural existence in a valley...
...Italians 'our Copenhagen'; when Germans say 'our Bruges,' and step back horror-stricken at the idea of laying murderous hands on it. Then will Europe live, for then it will be that the spirit that leads history will have uttered the creative words: 'Fiat Europa...
...Eisenhower, Marshall, Bradley and Churchill stepping in to upset his foolproof traps for the enemy. Triumph begins in September 1943, ends with a diary entry in June of 1946. The book's thesis is that Alanbrooke tried to draw the Germans out to the very periphery of Fortress Europa so as to take the heat off both the Russians and the coming Allied attack on Normandy. This idea was at the heart of the Italian campaign. But according to Alanbrooke, Ike and Mark Clark never did seem to know what that part of the war was all about...
Saved: $19 Million. Founded in 1857, North German Lloyd was one of the world's major passenger carriers before World War II; its queenly Europa and Bremen IV competed with British and French ships on equal terms. But the war cost the line 99.5% of its tonnage. The task of reconstruction fell to brisk Director Richard Bertram, 55, and pfennig-pinching Co-Director Johannes Kulen-kampff, fiftyish, who personally picks through the company's discarded files to salvage used paper clips...
...that time, the battle was won. Along a 30-mile front, the forces of freedom had secured their beachhead on Hitler's Festung Europa. The price was dear: 10,724 casualties, including 2,132 dead...