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BEYOND DEFEAT (312 pp.)-Hans Richter-Putnam...
Author Hans Richter, 42, an anti-Nazi who was drafted into Hitler's army, was captured at Cassino and shipped off to a prison camp in the U.S. In its glowering animosity to Naziism and its painful and perplexed discussions of the dilemmas facing anti-Nazi Germans, his book bears all the bitter marks of a man trying to write his way out of an ordeal...
...Wiedersehen . . ." The opening scenes show a German company moving up to the Cassino front. The major character, Pfc. Gühler, obviously a facsimile of Author Richter, believes that the Nazi army is doomed; his buddies are beginning to doubt the Führer's omnipotence. Some German soldiers, hoping to be captured, greet each other with the wisecrack, "Auf Wiedersehen in Kanada...
...Town, by Conrad Richter. Hard work and lusty humors in the building of Ohio; good fictional Americana in a novel that brings Richter's trilogy to an end with the Civil War (TIME...
...Town, by Conrad Richter. Hard work and lusty humors in the building of Ohio; good fictional Americana in a novel that brings Richter's trilogy to an end with the Civil War (TIME...