Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name was Kelly-Major Charles Kelly, of Sylvania, Ga.-but in the manner of combat soldiers the world over, his men seldom called him by anything but his nicknames. One was "Little Napoleon," because he was only a shade over 5 ft. 6 in. tall, had intense blue eyes and a shock of unruly black hair. They also called him "Madman Kelly," for during his six months in the South Viet Nam war, he flew more helicopter missions than...
Surprises Under the Grime. It took more than water. It took a long-ignored Second Empire decree signed by Napoleon III in 1852 requiring facades to be washed every ten years, and impassioned pressure from Minister of Culture André Malraux. In practice, the government rarely has to fine building owners, for landlords can ease the cost of cleaning by borrowing as much as 40% of the tab. Face-washing a private apartment house costs about $2,000. To clean the 18th century building in the Place de la Concorde that houses the Morgan Bank,* the Automobile Club of France...
...chagrin, the Crillon discovered that some of its columns were made of wood cleverly painted to simulate stone. The facade of the Invalides, where Napoleon lies buried, provided another embarrassing surprise. Pockmarked by gunfire during the liberation of Paris, it had been repaired on the cheap, with cement...
...culminating inevitably in massacres in the streets and prisons, and finally in the Reign of Terror. As for Restif himself, he was several times in danger from the Terror, but made an abject declaration for the party of Robespierre and survived to become a minor police official under Napoleon...
Uris put in about three years of research and writing to produce this book. It reads as if it were not written at all but dictated, Napoleon style, at top speed to at least two secretaries at once, and the resulting manuscript corrected with a glass in one hand, a cigar in the other, and no place to hold the blue pencil. Even the title is a piece of mindless sensationalism: Berlin was not a battle, let alone the last...