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IVAN THE TERRIBLE by Henri Troyat Dutton; 283 pages...
...biographer has painted the tumult and suffering of Russia's past more vividly than Henri Troyat, whose previous subjects include Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy and Catherine the Great. A master of the purposeful anecdote, the graceful accretion of detail that helps explain motive and madness, Troyat finds the key to Ivan's character in the ruler's early life. The heir to the throne of Muscovy was orphaned at seven, and he grew up amid endless scheming by Russia's landed aristocracy, the boyars. "Observing the brutal treatment that grown men inflicted on their fellows...
...press conference in Hanoi, the legendary General Giap, a smiling but still tough, grand fatherly figure who engineered the victory, attributes the Vietnamese military triumph to "a succession of surprises" that forced General Henri Navarre, the French commander in chief in Indochina, to make a stand at Dien Bien Phu. "Why were we successful?" he asks. "President Ho Chi Minh found a path: the combination of the struggle for national independence and the struggle for socialism." In a nearby sugar-cane field, close to where hundreds of French soldiers are said to be buried, the Vietnamese are erecting a modest...
...Story of Henri Tod, Buckley...
...Arthur Foundation award in 1981. Manifestly, he has traveled a vast distance since 1964, when he was convicted as a "social parasite" in Leningrad and forced to serve as a laborer on a state farm for 20 months. Unfortunately, some other greatly talented poets, including Lev Losev, Henri Volokhonsky, Dmitri Bobyshev and Yuri Kublanovsky, have yet to find translators who will help them break out of isolation...