Word: retreating
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NEVER CALL RETREAT, by Bruce Catton. Deservedly the bestselling of Civil War historians, Catton shows the South overwhelmed and analyzes two great leaders: Lincoln, who resisted vindictive penalties on the South, and Lee, who refused to start a guerrilla war in the Virginia hills, which would have bled the country...
...villagers of Chhamb and Dewa in the southwestern tip of Kashmir scurrying for shelter. As the sun rose higher over the semidesert land-flat, dotted with brush, a low mountain range to the north-Indian troops peered anxiously toward the border. What they saw sent them in a hasty retreat to the mountains: over the arid earth came 70 U.S.built Patton tanks and, in the dust cloud behind the lumbering giants, a full brigade of Pakistani infantrymen...
NEVER CALL RETREAT, by Bruce Catton. In this final volume of his centennial trilogy, Catton, deservedly the bestselling of Civil War historians, shows the South finally overwhelmed, and analyzes two great leaders: Lincoln, who resisted imposing vindictive penalties on the South, and Lee, who refused to initiate a guerrilla war in the Virginia hills, which could have bled the country...
...Sept. 14, the Serbs began the breakthrough in the mountains west of the Vardar River. Backed by the French, they punched a gaping 20-mile hole in the Bulgarian defenses. The Bulgarian retreat turned to a rout under strafing by R.A.F. machine gunners. Blue-turbaned Moroccan cavalry, under French officers, carried out what was perhaps the last great cavalry march of European warfare, advancing 57 miles in six days across craggy, wild Balkan mountains to seize the chief enemy bastion of Skoplje. In Paris, Winston Churchill later recalled, "it was recognized at once that the end had come." Six weeks...
...each old story new. Prodigious is the only word for the research that went into his centennial trilogy: all the battlefields revisited, 3,500 different sources consulted, 9,000,000 words of fresh notes. Like its two predecessors, The Coming Fury (1961) and Terrible Swift Sword (1963), Never Call Retreat can be read pleasurably and usefully even by someone familiar with all of Catton's other works...