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...Huge fortress walls protecting the citadel of Sardis, capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia, have been reported by a Cornell-Harvard archeological group exploring the site...
...route Che had picked up a "secretary," an attractive, high-cheekboned Cuban girl named Aleida March. When Che took over his victory headquarters-the commandant's house at Havana's La Cabana fortress-Aleida was with...
...FORTRESS (243 pp.)-Kenneth Attiwill -Doubleday...
Singapore was a fortress of paper-endless reams of paper that issued from British information offices assuring the world that Singapore was invincible. Confident that a constant boast of strength would impress the Japanese, the British encouraged "a complacency more impenetrable than the Malayan jungle." So writes Author Attiwill, who was there as a British soldier when Singapore fell in 1942 and vowed one day to tell the whole story...
Amid deepest secrecy, U.S. and Allied planes and ships have long prowled the air and sea approaches to the Soviet fortress. Such so-called "ferret" fights probe the Russian radar fences in the Pacific, in the Middle East and in the Arctic north. The Russians, for their part, send a weekly fight of radar-snooping planes along Japan's northeast coasts with such unfailing regularity that it is known as the "Tokyo Express." Three months ago, the Soviet trawler Vega made a much-photographed nuisance of herself oT the U.S. Atlantic Coast-taking bearings on U.S. coastal radars, barging...