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Why a German general's hat should be on a British officer's head is pretty much the gist of III Met by Moonlight. For as the staff car, driven by Author Moss, moved along the road in northern Crete, sentries at no less than 22 German traffic...
Jim Montgomery remembers Nov. 15, 1923 very clearly. He had just quit his steel-hustling job at a Waukegan machine plant and was having a game of 10? black ball at the Aggressor Pool Hall with his friend, Finis Moore. But Jim and Finis got to arguing and suddenly they...
Before the judges wrote finis to the Nürnberg record, the world got one more close-up glimpse of the Nazi nightmare. SS Lieut. General Gottlob Berger, 52, one of the few men Himmler ever called by his first name (translated it means "Praise God"), had set up the...
In his characteristic rolling prose, at once dignified, belligerent and unexpectedly twinkling, Churchill has told (in Vol. I) of the era of appeasement between the wars, sharpening the drama of the history with behind-the-scenes anecdotes, sharp cameos of those in the center of the stage, and pithy summings...
"Couldn't you stay home?" asked the Muse of History. "And leave Nicky alone with those sharpers! He never could do anything without me. Besides, I doubt if you know what it's like to be a ghost: le silence éternel de ces espaces in finis m...