Word: prisoner-of-war
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...achieve this "novel of agonizing suspense," says the jacket blurb, Author Westheimer "drew heavily" on his own years as a P.W. in both Italy and Germany, but the only sign of his insight is that all his characters can say "prisoner-of-war camp" in Italian. The cast, as in all prison-camp stories, includes a good-guy priest, a psychopath, a bragging coward and a German spy, and Westheimer makes a bad job worse by being one of those fantastically clever writers who tell everyone's age by saying how old his face looks younger than. Despite such...
...Mary Caroline Pratt, daughter of a straitlaced, enormously wealthy Standard Oil family, which looked askance at the peripatetic young son-in-law and his artistic family. Not long after the wedding, Chris left his bride and went to Switzerland with a special diplomatic mission to draw up a prisoner-of-war agreement. When the armistice was signed he made a quick reconnaissance of prison camps in Germany, was appalled to find red armbands and symptoms of Communism everywhere. Back in Switzerland he wired a friend from Berlin to come and meet him. "What can the U.S. do to stop Communism...
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