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...Tartars started well. Like the Nazis, they had some fancy techniques of war, some streamlined theories of slavery. The tough soldiers could live for months on a porridge made from mare's milk. If without food they would draw blood from their horses' veins. They could stay on horseback for two days on end, dozing while the horses grazed. Each man took 18 horses with him, rode them in turns. In battle they executed their cavalry maneuvers in concert with extraordinary speed. They were organized in units of ten; if any of the ten were captured, the rest...
...equilibrium. No treaty is eternal.-so said Mussolini, dreaming of expansion in 1923. Benito Mussolini was a man in whom the imperial dream was an obsession. Italy would grow strong through Fascism, then Italy would conquer an empire. Not only bits of Africa would be hers; she would rule Mare Nostrum and its shores. Italian ships would ply back & forth between Italy and Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco; to the east they would sail to the gates of Islam, which would recognize Italy as its protector. Italian settlers would occupy all the fertile shores of Mare Nostrum, and Mare Nostrum...
...worlds to conquer: the Near East and Africa lay before them. With the fall of Crete and the alignment of France with Germany, the Mediterranean had become no longer safe for Great Britain. But it was a hollow hour for Benito Mussolini. His archenemy Britain had been driven from Mare Nostrum at last. Now Mare Nostrum was German...
They had to learn to use machetes, cut their trails through matted tree and vine. They packed tents, food, guns, building materials, ammunition into the steaming wastes by boat, truck, muleback, and shanks' mare. They slashed down forests, cut away hilltops and hillsides to make sites for their guns and quarters. They built their barracks, from foundation to rooftop...
Putting its skis and snowshoes away until next winter, the Outing Club yesterday announced its program of spring activities on bicycle, canoe, and Shank's Mare. Beginning with bike and canoe trips this weekend, the schedule culminates in a cross-country bike race to Northampton on Memorial...