Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black-haired, shouting Slovakian Propaganda Minister Sano Mach, pulled up at the front of the hotel at the same moment Welles's car drew up. Unobtrusive in a dark suit and black soft hat, poker-faced Sumner Welles gave no sign of interest or annoyance as the air-raid siren screamed a false alarm, the Adlon's lobby filled with gesticulating, heel-clicking, heiling Slovakians, obscuring his own arrival...
...CAPTIVITY - Nevil Shute -Morrow ($2.50). Nevil Shute is a British aeronautical engineer who now holds an important post in the Air Ministry. His last novel, Ordeal, whisked readably through the harrowing experiences of a middle-class family during a raid on England by a thousand enemy bombers. Less exciting than Ordeal, Author Shute's An Old Captivity turns to a peacetime theme-the story of a British aviator who pilots an Oxford archaeologist and his daughter to Greenland in order to make aerial surveys of old Norse ruins. At his best in describing the flight itself, Author Shute complicates...
...release from the concentration camps, Schiffer was transported through a large number of state prisons. He was imprisoned in Vienna during the terrible day of November 9, 1938, when thousands of Jews were tortured at the hands of the "Nazi beasts." He considers the days of horror during this raid as the most terrible of his life...
...Leningrad last week Joseph Stalin's best friend could hear the rumble of distant artillery. He could see long trains loaded with men and supplies departing for the front, returning trains unloading their wounded. In spite of an absence of blackouts and air-raid alarms, Leningrad was a city at war - the only city in Russia where the Finnish war seemed real. For that war is not so much Russia's war as it is Leningrad's. Although Russia's army comes from as far south as the Caucasus and its material from the banks...
...suits of watertight rubber underwear). Amidst repeated admonitions to caution, the Rangers make enough noise (once they explode a powder keg) to rouse half the Amerinds in North America. But the Abenakis pay them no mind. These obliging Indians have been on a bender the night before the raid, are sleeping it off when Rogers' Rangers gleefully fire their huts. In one grand blood bath all the Abenakis are slaughtered. This, however, does not seem to solve the Indian problem. Hunger, fatigue, other Indians, do for Rogers' Rangers what the Abenakis cannot. Only a third of the expedition...