Word: libya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost. Millar, an armored division platoon leader, was captured in Libya in the winter of 1941-42. For the next 20 months he was a P.W. in Italy and in Germany. Under the terms of the Geneva Convention, officer P.W.s may not be forced to work. Both in World War I and in World War II, hundreds of them worked like mad-digging hidden tunnels, forging counterfeit papers, tailoring civilian-like disguises, anything that might eventually help them escape...
...very first, in the hope of trading territory for Allied good will and economic help. A slight "rectification" of the French-Italian border would be acceptable. Italians would not argue long or loud to keep the South Tirol. Greece could have the Dodecanese Islands. Italy was resigned to losing Libya, including Cyrenaica - provided Yugoslavia did not become a colonial power at Italy's expense...
...million words turned out to be about 8,000,000-enough to fill a half-dozen filing cabinets. They were the dispatches that some 80 TIME correspondents had filed from London during the blitz, from Manila as the Japanese struck, from Bataan before it fell, from Libya as Rommel lunged at Cairo, from battlefields in the Aleutians, in Burma, in Sicily, in Italy, in Russia, in the South Pacific...
...York Times in five wars (Morocco, 1926; Nicaragua, 1928; Ethiopia, 1935; Finland. 1939; World War II) and one insurrection (Cuba, 1930), who earned a diplomatic protest from Russia by his candid coverage of the 1936-38 Soviet treason trials; of a heart attack; in Des Moines, Iowa. Captured in Libya in 1941 and imprisoned for six months, he later followed the First Army from the Normandy beachheads to the union with the Russians. His advice to war reporters: "A dead correspondent sends no dispatches...
Field Marshal Viscount Wavell, affable Viceroy of India, veteran of Libya and Ethiopia, edited an anthology of verse. The title: Other Men's Flowers...