Word: renault
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mask of Apollo, Renault...
...Cecelia Holland. A novel about 16th century Hungary that belongs to the Mary Renault-Zoe Oldenbourg school of authentic historical fiction...
...Mask of Apollo, Renault...
Considering the daredevil way she operated, it came as no surprise. She once drove a Renault all the way from Argentina to Alaska, and the same idea occurred to her while covering the war as a freelancer in Viet Nam. Why not drive from Ca Mau, at the nation's southern tip, to the Demilitarized Zone in the north along 600 miles of ragged road and Viet Cong? In December she started out, her car sandbagged as a defense against land mines...
...V.C.s forced her to drive off the highway to the edge of a sugar-cane field. There they all got out; while Michele munched a piece of sugar cane, which she asked her captors to cut for her, the Viet Cong set up a booby trap in the Renault with a grenade and a 155-mm. howitzer shell. Then they marched their prisoner...