Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SECRET SURRENDER, by Allen Dulles. This account of the capitulation of 1,000,000 Nazi and Italian troops during World War II. told by the man who arranged it, demonstrates that fact can sometimes be better than espionage fiction...
...valuable contemporary historian, a journalist of genius rather than a novelist-the composer, as Dos Passos puts it now, of "a narrative panorama to which I saw no end." These judgments pertain today, though it is also true that the work that stood "midway between history and fiction" was fiction all along. Dos Passes' bare, flat non-style, in which events-tragical, comical, pastoral or historical-were impersonally told in the same tone of voice, can now be seen as a deliberate esthetic contrivance. The object? To convey by a massive weight of incident the feebleness of the individual...
...SECRET SURRENDER, by Allen Dulles. This account of the capitulation of 1,000,000 Nazi and Italian troops during World War II, told by the man who arranged it, demonstrates that fact can sometimes be an improvement on espionage fiction...
...FICTION 1. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (1 last week...
...FICTION...