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...facts." Digging like an archaeologist through mountains of material?histories, news reports, letters, diaries, photos?he picks out the details that bring the past, and the dead, to life. Brigadier-General Harold "Pompey" Elliott, a solicitor, describes men "going down before the machine guns like corn before the reaper ... I am sure there was some plan at the back of the attack but it is difficult to know what it was." Sergeant Archie Barwick, a farmer, writes of the German bombardment at Pozi?res: "Men were driven stark staring mad ... Any amount of them could be seen crying & sobbing like children...
...Among the 1,103 Monty Python items up for bid last week on eBay were these ephemera inspired by the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail: talking action figures of King Arthur, sirs Bedevere and Robin and girlie-man Prince Herbert; Grim Reaper and killer Rabbit plush toys; "Holy Hand Grenade" and "French fart" T shirts; Black Knight "It's just a flesh wound" boxer shorts; and tickets to Spamalot, the hit musical that Eric Idle (and co-composer John Du Prez) confected from MP&HG nearly 30 years later...
...rather challenging first few pages, you will find that Liesel, whose hobby is stealing books, especially stealing banned books from the Nazis, is a heroine worth fighting for, and that Death is actually a pretty cool guy to hang out with ("I like this human idea of the grim reaper," he says, "I like the scythe"). Zusak doesn't sugarcoat anything, but he makes his ostensibly gloomy subject bearable the same way Kurt Vonnegut did in Slaughterhouse-Five: with grim, darkly consoling humor...
...still a stripling in 1831 when Cyrus McCormick invented the first workable mechanical reaper and went on to form a company, McCormick & Gray, to make and sell the revolutionary machine. By 1902 the firm had merged with four others and was called International Harvester. Last week the company (1985 sales: $3.5 billion) dropped that historic name. International Harvester, which last year sold its farm-implement business to the J I Case division of Tenneco, emerged from a nine-month-long name-lift operation as Navistar International. The new name, a blend of navigate and star, refers to the company...
...Abdul Hassan. Some of the bullets and RPGs targeted the SAS rescue convoy, which was making its way through the valley without lights. By now, however, the odds had changed. A U.S. forward air controller traveling with the Australians summoned the AC-130, call sign reaper, whose laser-guided bombs smashed into the Sabari bunkers...