Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...volunteer" Condor Legion in Spain, came home a squadron leader. In 1942, after three years of World War II, Fighter Pilot Galland was 30, a major general, a top-ranking ace, and inspector general of the Luftwaffe fighter command. After his 94th kill, Hitler personally hung the diamond-studded Knight's Cross around Galland's neck...
That was only the beginning of Sir Henry's troubles. By slaying the dragon, he, of course, won the damsel. Lady Alisane, the dragon's ward, had been idly waiting around to be rescued, and as soon as the battle ended, she stepped forward and offered her knight some...
...dragon was a scaly monster with a forked tongue and hooked claws. He politely requested the knight's identity. "I am Henry of Brentwood, knight," the knight replied. "My father was Sir Tiffany of The Glen, and my mother was an enchantress...
With that, Sir Henry tried to charge, but his nervous horse backed away. Soon the dragon was spitting clouds of smoke and fire. As the monster opened his mouth wide, horse and rider were so scared that the knight dropped his spear-right into the dragon's mouth. It killed the beast stone-cold dead before you could as much as say Saint George...
...animal Author Nathan is really aiming at, of course, is man; in the shape of Sir Henry, he makes a fine target. No longer young, prudent Sir Henry is just a run-of-the-mill knight who wears old-fashioned armor, travels with a hot-water bottle and suffers from nosebleed after battle. Head up, though run down after his encounter with the dragon, he is lucky enough to beat the daylights out of another knight and win a second fair maid. This doubles his troubles. With two women to choose between, Sir Henry becomes the eternal, quintessential male - totally...