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...story of World War II Spy Ulysses Diello, Albanian valet of the British Ambassador to Turkey. During 1944, Diello photographed and sold to the Nazis such top-secret documents from the British embassy in Ankara as the minutes of the Moscow, Cairo and Teheran conferences, and plans for Operation Overlord (the Normandy invasion). Ironically, the Nazis made no use of the information for fear that Diello, who operated with the code name "Cicero," was a British plant. Most of the ?300,000 paid to him by the Germans turned out to be counterfeit. Cicero finally disappeared without trace,* while British...
...this setting The Cannibal's story is told by Zizendorf, a neo-Nazi who plans to free Germany from Leevey, its American overlord. Zizendorf lives in a boarding house run by Madame Stella Snow, who symbolizes the eternal Germany of ruthless energy and strength. Among the other boarders are a hungry duke, a relic of the Kaiser-ruled past; a drunken census taker who personifies perennial German officialdom ready to serve any master; Herr Stintz, the typical "little man" whose futility is expressed in nocturnal tuba-playing, and Jutta, Zizendorf's cowlike mistress, who wants only the warmth...
Whenever Dave Beck wants anything, he goes after it. That is how he became a top man in the A.F.L. Teamsters (membership: 1,000,000), and labor overlord of the West. Last week, Beck showed how he was going after up to 2,000,000 new members for the A.F.L.'s biggest union...
...Putative Medal. For the first half of the book, the story hops through the tense spring before Operation Overlord, landing with disarming casualness on its characters in their individual postures and predicaments...
...first days of Overlord, the members of the sth crash ashore in France, and death begins its steady tithing. Corporal Shuttleworth dies with a snigger: "The cow, she'll get my pension." Major Maddison, leading a rash reconnaissance into disastrous ambush, is shot by one of his own infuriated men. Colonel Pothecary's turn comes too. "[He] rose to his feet . . . ignoring the bullets that squealed around him . . . They saw him stoop, pick a white flower from a hedgerow and fasten it, without haste, in his lapel. Everywhere in the meadow men rose and moved forward with...