Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight between Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito and the Cominform had settled the Trieste issue: Tito will not get the Italian port, now under international control...
...Died. Marshal Pavel Semyonovich Rybalko, fortyish, billiard-bald commander in chief of Soviet armored, tank and mechanized troops, who led his tank army into a spectacular breakthrough on the Ukrainian front in December 1943; after long illness; in Moscow...
...other books, historical figures drift in & out of the story, blending indistinguishably with the figments of Author Sinclair's imagination. Among them: Hitler, Marshal Kesselring, Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Mrs. Roosevelt, General Patton, General Donovan. They seem much less real than the imaginary characters...
...Soviet Marshal Klimenti (the "Liberator of Budapest") Voroshilov is something of a connoisseur of art, as generals go. In the summer of 1946, when Hungary was looking for somebody to commemorate its "liberation" with a giant monument, Voroshilov found the man on the spot. On a stroll through a Budapest park, he had seen and admired a sculpture by Sigismund de Strobl. Voroshilov dropped in at De Strobl's studio on newly named Voroshilov Avenue, found the sculptor quite willing to do the job. But De Strobl would have nothing to do with the proposed designs, which called...
...stood the man who had found the Königsberg, a slender, malaria-sallowed big-game hunter named P. J. Pretorius. A Briton raised in the Transvaal, he had spent his life in the jungle. When he had completed his war chores (he became chief scout to Field Marshal J. C. Smuts, who has written a foreword for this book), he slipped back into the jungle for more of the kind of adventures that would make a Hemingway hero itch with envy...