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...what they could from the records and statistics. At 76, Survivor Chapman is one of a dwindling group of 150 old comrades who share his memories. He is a historian (at the Universities of Leeds and Pittsburgh), but his academic work contains nothing so grim and memorable as this memoir of his battalion of the Royal Fusiliers...
...book survives as more than a memoir of a battalion; it stands as a funeral service for a generation, the somber record of all men who not only bore themselves well in the face of a great calamity, but found their lives enhanced by it. There is no rhetoric; Chapman puts out no flags, but guards the human honor of his battalion like a mourner concealing his grief from strangers at the graveside...
...Tory minister? "Never. No place and no time." Sure, she added, "I've been out with a man for dinner. Sure I've been out with a man to play golf. Well, why shouldn't I?" Why not indeed? At last report, she had sold one memoir to a Cologne magazine for $25,000 signed a contract with the Toronto Star for $7,000, earned $5,000 from the CBC, was negotiating for a $33,000 story with an English paper, and was asking $12,000 for other interviews. There was even talk of a movie...
...late Irish playwright Brendan Behan (The Hostage) and his younger, less successful playwright brother Dominic (Posterity Be Damned) were once described as the most alarming combination since assault and battery. In this graceless little memoir Dominic sets out to recount some of the escapades that gave them their reputation. Although he sometimes strikes a rollicking note by writing in an Irish dialect as heavy as Kilkenny dew, all Dominic proves is that 1) Brendan, who died in 1964, was especially unattractive and unmanageable when in his cups; and 2) drunks seldom are very funny except to those who are sharing...
...MEMOIRS OF FIELD-MARSHAL KEITEL, Chief of the German High Command, 1938-1945, edited by Walter Gorlitz. Completed just before the author was hanged as a war criminal, this memoir by Hitler's top military man gives a fascinating account of the last days of the Wehrmacht as well as a chilling insight into the moral myopia that afflicted the Nazi high command...