Word: pigeonly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Late Bulletin. In Forst, Germany, an indomitable carrier pigeon turned up with a three-year-old message from a Nazi infantry detachment: "We are cut. off by the enemy in southern Italy and no hope is left of breaking through...
...hour and 15 minutes later. The judge slowly read over the details of their verdict, then he proclaimed: "Hardy, vous êtes libre." The spectators stood and cheered Hardy. But the Communists were still relentlessly waging their battle. Headlined the Communist L'Humanité: HARDY THE STOOL PIGEON ACQUITTED...
...G.I.s, wary D.P.s and diehard SS men supplies obvious possibilities for an adventure story, and this one makes the most of them. Author Millar, 35, fought with the British in Egypt, with the Maquis in France, and wrote two exciting autobiographical books about it (Waiting in the Night, Horned Pigeon). His first novel, and his third book to be published in the U.S. in the past year, packs all its action and reflection into one week in May 1945, in a secluded Austrian valley -less than a week after...
Perhaps the most readable personal war reporting of the year was by Britain's Captain George Reid Millar, who described in Horned Pigeon and Waiting in the Night his hair-raising escape from a Nazi P.O.W. camp and subsequent undercover work with the French Maquis. Among correspondents, the New York Times's Drew Middleton and Australia's Alan Moorehead were the best of the I-witnesses. Among the unit combat histories already published: those of the 24th, 83rd, 84th, 103rd, 104th Divisions...
...happened because the Army had placed in charge of the prison a pompous, unimaginative, and thoroughly likable officer who wasn't up to his job. Colonel Burton C. Andrus loved that job. Every morning his plump little figure, looking like an inflated pouter pigeon, moved majestically into the court, impeccably garbed in his uniform and highly shellacked helmet. His bow to the judges as they entered was one of the sights of Nürnberg. He loved to pen little notes: "The American Colonel invites the distinguished French prosecutor and his staff to accompany him to a baseball game...