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...Turkish Front, was wounded, and, as a convalescent, fell in love with a Syrian Arab girl. He took her back to the mountains of Bavaria; but her lungs were not fit, and she died. Borg became a Mohammedan, studied Orientology, and eventually was persuaded by General Erich Ludendorff to undertake military intrigues in the Middle East. He disguised his name by spelling his signature, A. Borg, backwards and adding a euphonious...
Unlike the Ludendorff-Haig-Pershing-Joffre practice of letting brass hats with the aid of technicians work things out at desks far behind the lines and then turn execution over to subordinates, the Wavell usage is to train civil-servant-like underlings to do the paper work, while the generals, viewing the field in person, make decisions on the spot and virtually in action...
...airplane brought incendiarism back to its own. Ludendorff's memoirs reveal that German aviation was ready to destroy London and Paris in 1918 with newly invented magnesium-thermite bombs. But the German Army's situation was then so desperate that the high command felt such horror would win them only harsher peace terms. Magnesium-thermite bombs, now raining on British cities, were first used extensively in the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1936. But, says Zanetti, no new incendiary types have been invented since 1918, nor are new types very likely to appear. Other pyrofacts...
...General Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff and a handful of moth-eaten followers, including Adolf Hitler, marched out of the Bürgerbräu Keller in Munich and tried to take the Town Hall. Since the National Socialist Party came to power, Nov. 8, Beer Hall Putsch's Eve, has been both a sentimental and a political occasion. Last year, just after Hitler had harangued his old comrades, a time bomb exploded in Bürgerbräu Keller, killing seven unimportant people, injuring 63, and Germany used the incident to fan hatred of Britain. This year there...
...being more enlightening. But this one did not quite live up to its promise. Valuable is its firsthand account of the rise of the Nazis and the Strasser role in it. Valuable too were the intimate glimpses and records of Nazi big shots; of Hitler in conversation with Ludendorff, Hindenburg, his sub-leaders; a vivid account of the June Purge, its debunking of Hitler's part in it; the chronicles of the Gestapo at work, with ambushes, escapes, assassinations...