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The Battle is a great showpiece of Remains' descriptive powers, but this second part of the book is, no more than the first, merely another work of realism intended to horrify readers with the horror of war. The pitiful French advance positions pulverized over a sector miles wide, miles...
When the Romanovs 'came to the throne 300 years ago they were "provincial nobodies." They managed, in their time, to produce three colossal figures (Alexander I, Catherine the Great, Peter the Great), one kind man (Alexander II, who freed the serfs, was killed by a bomb). The rest were...
"If the Allies win the war, it won't necessarily mean a new heaven on earth; but if Hitler wins, it will mean a new hell. We must resist. We must throw aside the pitiful hypocrisy of our neutrality," Lewis Mumford said yesterday.
General Secretary of the Communist Party, Stalin constructed under him a bureaucracy of secretaries, "a hierarchy of secretaries, a psychology of secretaries." For that and for the ruthless use of the secret police his talents sufficed, says Souvarine, for the wise reconstruction and administration of Russia they were pitiful in...
Not satisfied with having seen 131 of their bombers and fighters mowed down by an enemy that lost only eight planes, foolhardy Soviet Mongolian aviators again dared to violate Manchukuoan territory one day last week. Over the border they roared, 60 strong; up to meet them climbed three spunky Japanese...