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The men of Romanoglio went off to war when Mussolini gave the order. They were poor, illiterate, confused and greedy. Those who still live and have made their way home are working on the roads, which, like pruning their olive trees and trimming their cabbage, is work they understand. The...
Afternoon in Jersey. "Twilight came early. Lights were turned on as the train raced smoothly southward through New Jersey. . . . The soldiers stared at the whizzing landscape, at bright-paned homes merging with descending dark. . . . They dreamed on it with hungry eyes. One lad not more than 21, his leg amputated...
There was scarcely a war book which did not have, like bits of precious metal buried in piles of scrap iron, its passages of eloquence and emotion. There was not one which, spanning the fronts in all their global immensity, and the millions of individual tragedies, encompassed the war in...
A bowling alley's polished lanes were unscratched. No patient had slept in the sleek new 50-bed hospital, fitted with X-rays and incubators. A mess hall (capacity: 450) had finer equipment than any hotel in Montana, but nothing and nobody to serve. A dozen boys and girls...
Worst hit was the center of town. The Potsdam, Stettin and Yorckstrasse railroad stations were destroyed. Traffic into the Anhalt station was stopped because the tracks on the approaches were ripped up. From great piles of coal stored at the damaged Lehrte station smoke mushroomed thickly.