Word: ryan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert Ryan...
...CORNELIUS RYAN...
...after it began, Operation Market-Garden phased into a withdrawal, ironically coded Operation Berlin. By then the Allies had lost 17,000 troops, or 1% times the casualties of the Normandy invasion. "The most momentous airborne offensive ever conceived" also turned out to be-in the words of Cornelius Ryan, "one of the greatest miscalculations of the European...
...Ryan, the author of The Longest Day and The Last Battle, has cancer and in fact, until a dramatic remission allowed him to continue, expected to die before his book was finished. But not even such an affliction could stop his passionate research. A Bridge Too Far lists more than 220 books, articles and reports in its bibliography. The names of the British, American, Polish, Dutch and German soldiers and civilians he interviewed fill a 35-page appendix. A cast of thousands supplies quotes: from Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands to an acting mess sergeant from Surrey...
...learn that streetcars in Arnhem were pale yellow; that Lieut. General Frederick Browning, deputy commander of the First Allied Airborne Army (and husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier), wore spotless gray kid gloves and sat on an empty beer crate as his glider took him into battle. Nor does Ryan fail to mention the name of the beer (Worthington)-just as he identifies the typewriter (Olivetti) being tapped by a then U.P. correspondent named Walter Cronkite. Random, trivial, even compulsive, Ryan's facts eventually justify themselves as a fragmented tableau of that most fragmented experience: war. Here are just...