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Beevor is a skillful guide through the complex jockeying for position, sketching thumbnail portraits of the senior officers with novelistic abandon. (Of the senior British commander, the exasperating Sir Bernard Montgomery, he writes, "His self-regard was almost comical.") He is willing to be graphic, though never gratuitously so, in his descriptions of battle. Maybe the most horrific weapon on the battlefield was the white phosphorus the Allies carried. During the bitter fighting for Hill 112, an English soldier tried to slip through barbed wire under machine-gun fire. A round clipped a phosphorus grenade in his pouch and ignited...
...also the story of the destructive arrival of the modern age in Europe. The armies that rolled through Normandy obliterated an ancient land and way of life that would be rebuilt but never restored. At one point, Beevor describes the astonishment of an old Benedictine nun emerging from her convent during the evacuation of Caen: she had never seen a truck before. It took a world war to chivy out the last vestiges of the 19th century from where they still lived, peacefully sequestered in the bocage, and expunge them forever. The Germans and the Allies would eventually leave Normandy...
...fourth set, Columbia was clearly in a rhythm, and Harvard trailed for the entire set. The Crimson managed to tie the score twice but were never able to take a lead and lost...
...It’s never an easy game against those guys,” Richter said. “Their fans are really into it so it gives them a boost for sure and they always give us a good game, so we’re looking forward to it. We want to build on Friday’s game and keep fine-tuning our team game...
...kids are really, really committed,” Murphy said. “[They did] a good job block destructing, good job [with] gap control, good job tackling. We never let them get their run game off the ground...