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Operation Holdfast climaxed a month of the most ambitious maneuvers that NATO's small, green but growing forces have so far staged. On the north German plain, east of the Rhine, 150,000 British, Dutch, Belgian and Canadian troops were holding off a theoretical mass attack from the east. Britain had contributed three armored divisions, equipped with the 52-ton, Korea-tested Centurion tank. Belgium had one division of obsolescent U.S. Shermans...
...muscles of his "bronzed back writhed like snakes," he heaved the cannon overboard. It landed spang in the British boat below. The boat split wide open; King George's minions gasped and gurgled. "Great God o' the Mountain," cried Holdfast, "what a glorious fight!" "Ugh!" grunted one of Holdfast's Mohegan warriors, proudly eyeing the mighty torso of his chief...
...scholar, politico and Pulitzer Prize biographer (Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Al-cott), has collaborated with his son Willard Shepard on this outsized (250,000 words) chunk of historical fiction, in which almost everything happens except the storming of the Alamo and the rape of Lucrece. Holdfast Gaines, despite his name, is a Mohegan Indian, in the direct line of the great King Uncas himself. He is a nephew of Samson Occum-whom Dartmouth men will remember as an Indian protege of Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth's pious founder. Nathan Hale is Holdfast's tutor. Among...
...Holdfast roams all over the map during the years 1780-1815, getting nowhere in particular but affording Authors Shepard a gaudy chance to go all-out on sea fights, land fights, Indian massacres, pirates, poisoned daggers and messages scrawled in invisible...
Readers who look patiently will find authentic U.S. history in Holdfast Gaines, hidden under a growth of dialect as thick as dog hair and the most unabashedly bogus hard-luck love story since the days of J. Fenimore Cooper...