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...accepted. He drank deep, and gave a hoarse but gallant cheer for the team. He got some more punch...
Thirkell fans are sure to enjoy County Chronicle, in which two nice girls land two nice husbands, a brave widow is spliced to a gallant bishop, and pudgy babies are born and crow in almost every chapter. But students of the contemporary novel are likely to be far more fascinated by Author Thirkell's indefatigable struggle to bring old Barsetshire up to date while simultaneously keeping it out of date...
...battalions were committed piecemeal at Osan, to delay the enemy's approach to the Kum River line and Taejon. The Americans, at this stage, had no tanks and their light bazookas and antitank weapons were no match for the Red armor. They fell back. But their gallant action had served, at least, as a temporary roadblock, and it forced the first great tactical mistake of the North Koreans. Apparently overestimating the U.S. strength, the Communists chose to deploy (see map). If they had driven straight on with their main armored force, they would have overrun the tiny U.S. contingent...
...Gallant Hood, by John P. Dyer. A penetrating biography of one of the most fearless and most rash of the Confederacy's commanders (TIME, Sept...
...GALLANT HOOD (383 pp.) - John P. Dyer-Bobbs-Merrill...