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Campaign Veteran. In London, a sympathetic British army court gave Gunner Bartholomew Meehan, 24, father of six, a light one-year sentence for six years of desertion after he told his story: in 1951 he was granted 14 days compassionate leave to visit his wife and their newborn baby; by the time he was ready to come back, she announced that she was expecting another child; the same thing happened in 1953, and again the next year, and the next, and the next; he finally surrendered to the military police this year upon learning that no child was expected...
Neil Addington, 32, a Marine Corps machine gunner in World War II, promptly trained his sights on the National Guard and, by a well-aimed series of disclosures in the New Mexican, blew up a statewide scandal involving the highhanded misuse of thousands of dollars in state funds, compounded by unbelievably lax state auditing procedures. Last week, after a week's airing before a legislative committee, the Guard's Adjutant General Charles Gurdon Sage, 62, a veteran of Bataan.† Japanese prison camps and 38 years as a guardsman, resigned under fire. The Guard's shenanigans were...
...comes off really well in this disenchanted novel, but if Gunner Asch occasionally shows contempt for Americans both as administrators and fighting men, it is nothing compared to his virulent shame for his own people, who have, he says, "the biggest words, the loudest cries, the most willing hands, the most trusting hearts and the emptiest brains! God save us Germans from ourselves, a race of natural suicides...
...only the lucky who live. Some men, without being cowards, display an extraordinary knack for survival. Such a one is Gunner Herbert Asch, the fictional Wehrmacht veteran who for six years of World War II managed to escape the enemy's bullets and the stupidity of his own commanders. Asch survived, not as the anvil survives the hammer, but as a nimble, highly intelligent fly eludes the clumsy hand that would kill it. For Asch is a true operator, a hepcat of war who knows every nuance of the dance of death and leaves it to the squares...
Strummed Zither. This novel is the last of a fast-moving, often hilarious trilogy (The Revolt of Gunner Asch, TIME, March 5, 1956; Forward, Gunner Asch! TIME, Oct. 29) that carries its hero from his home town in Germany to the depths of Russia and back again. It opens in the war's last days as Germany is crushed between East and West. Asch, who has risen from the ranks to become a lieutenant of artillery, is part of a disorganized unit surrounded by U.S. troops. A stray Nazi colonel named Hauk and his sinister aide, Lieut. Greifer, order...