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...until 1933, under the new Roosevelt Administration, that the U.S. recognized the Soviet government, and a brief honeymoon began. Then came Stalin 's psychopathic purges and show trials and the Hitler-Stalin pact that prepared the way for World War II. But when Hitler attacked Russia, Americans began to regard the Soviet Union as a gallant ally...
...German armies had driven deep into Russia, and in August, General Friedrich Paulus' Sixth Army closed in on Stalingrad on the Volga. The Soviets resisted fiercely. As fall and then the bitter winter set in. Paulus' men inched into Stalingrad, fighting house to house. But like Napoleon, Hitler had come too far into Russia and reckoned without the Russian cold. The suffering and bravery of Stalingrad in that terrible winter became a new myth of an enduring Soviet Union. The Red Army, under Georgi Zhukov, managed to encircle Paulus' 200,000-man army and batter it into...
...when Hitler was preparing to invade Russia, that the first buyer anted up $18.75 for the first $25 Series E bond. By last year 2.7 billion of them, $67.5 billion worth, had been sold to kids who brought in their pennies and workers who had money deducted from each paycheck. Sales held steady over the years, even though inflation made the bonds a bad investment. But the expense of processing them went up so much that it did not pay to issue them. "The cost is the same whether the bond is $25 or $100," says a Treasury official...
...banyan tree. We will practice meditation.' " Hesse hung his earlier stories with necromantic swags. In the middle period of Steppenwolf, he contrived a surreal kind of existentialism. In his masterpiece, The Glass Bead Game (or Magister Ludi, the English title), composed during precisely the years when Hitler consolidated his power, Hesse invented his own classical serenity, all civilization encoded in an infinite chess game to be played like the Pythagorean music of the spheres, but in a motionless universe. The book was completed in Hesse's Swiss redoubt at Montagnola just about the time that Dachau and Auschwitz...
...other diaries cover equally unusual locales. Stalin's Russia. Hitler's Germany. Chamberlain's Britain. Daladier's France. And on into South America, India, African and Hawaii. Goodfriend has seen a lot of the world. During World War II he edited Stars and Stripes, the Army's newspaper; after the war, his work with the U.S. Information Agency and the Foreign Service took him on a grand tour of the globe. More than thirty books--not to mention the diaries--record his observations on the diverse cultures and tumultuous political climates in which he has lived...