Word: plebeian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plans I devised . . . God had contraried all of them; there is nothing to be done but to adore His judgments. . . ." Cardinal of Spain is the first full-length study in English of the brilliant, plebeian, little-known prelate who "changed the whole history of the Mediterranean" and made one of Europe's most sensational poverty-to-power careers. "Had Alberoni been given two worlds like ours to destroy," grumbled Frederick the Great, an authori ty, "he would have asked for a third." Giulio Alberoni was born (1664) in the Grand Duchy of Parma - until then, chiefly famed...
...this façade is deceptive. Behind it hides a strong and active mind, a harshness of will and temper. Ability and toughness brought Junker von Manstein, with his discipline and logic, close to plebeian Adolf Hitler, with his psychoses and intuition. Hitler must have respect for this good soldier. Manstein may have no respect for his Führer, but he bears him loyalty as the chief of state...
...Plebeian Rommel had no place in the skeleton post-war Reichswehr, and his frustrated longing for war turned him very early to the Nazis. He met Hitler in Württemberg, became a Storm Troop leader, joined a murderous raid against the Socialists and Communists of Coburg, a raid which Hitler, in Mein Kampf, singled out as the turning point in his career. Thereafter Rommel headed Hitler's personal police, the SS, and traveled with the leader and his adjutant, Bruckner, sharing with Bruckner the honor of sleeping in front of Hitler's bedroom door. When Hitler shook...
Whatever his place, he is such a man as some of the commanders Napoleon assembled around him in his youth: tough, untutored, plebeian, successful. The German radio recently quoted him as saying...
...Plebeian Rommel had no place in the skeleton post-war Reichswehr, and his frustrated longing for war turned him very early to the Nazis. He met Hitler in Württemberg, became a Storm Troop leader, joined a murderous raid against the Socialists and Communists of Coburg, a raid which Hitler, in Mein Kampf, singled out as the turning point in his career. Thereafter Rommel headed Hitler's personal police, the SS, and traveled with the leader and his adjutant, Bruckner, sharing with Bruckner the honor of sleeping in front of Hitler's bedroom door. When Hitler shook...