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PHILADELPHIA--Mikael Renberg and Valeri Zelepukin scored 28 seconds apart in the third period as the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Montreal Canadiens 5-2 yesterday and continued their torrid...
...KAISER (461 pp.)-Joachim von Kürenberg-Simon & Schuster...
...shapes up in The Kaiser of Prussian-born Biographer Joachim von Kürenberg is a vastly different fellow from the monster who was hanged in effigy throughout the U.S. in World War I. It is not simply that the author remembers Wilhelm II's good points; it is the fact that he had so many weak ones. Kürenberg's book makes the going a bit sticky for people whose knowledge of modern European history is shaky, but it will bring many a surprise to readers who vaguely remember Wilhelm as the Iron Hohenzollern...
...sculptor working on a monument to Wilhelm's parents (Kaiser Friedrich and Kaiserin Victoria), the Kaiser sent an order saying that "Prussian eagles, even when sitting, must be represented as if they were flying." No great soldier himself, he worried his general staff, as Author Kürenberg puts it, by "losing himself more and more in external trappings, designing new uniforms and braidings or inventing cords and silver whistles for dispatch riders." He could be arrogant enough to tell King Alfonso of Spain publicly to go back and put his uniform on right, so incredibly undiplomatic...
...Germans felt the false hopes of abortive offensives, Atlantic Walls and secret weapons-and still hollower feelings after the fall of Tunis, Sicily, Naples, Rome; Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa, Bucharest; Paris, Marseilles, Antwerp; Riga, Sofia, Warsaw, Budapest; Aachen and Cracow; Frankfurt and Danzig; Essen and Vienna; Magdeburg and Nürenberg; Bremen, Milan, Munich, Berlin...
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