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...Fuller can be sound about Tunisia eleven months in advance, he can also be very instructive about Thermopylae, 2,400 years afterwards. His Decisive Battles (Scribner; $4.50) is a layman's shortest shortcut to an understanding of war. Now, in Decisive Battles of the U.S.A., General Fuller has given U.S. citizens a similar shortcut to an appreciation of specifically U.S. talents and weaknesses on the field of battle. It is a book for the education of armchair strategists...
Mississippi's arch-rhetorical Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, whose shortest speech is a reasonable facsimile of a filibuster, got to work in earnest. His desk was piled deep with reference books (including one on Japan) ; he was prepared to "talk until Christmas...
Strategically Africa offers even more. The African bulge juts westward within 1,800 miles of the Brazilian bulge, providing the shortest air route between Eastern and Western Hemispheres. Pan American Airways had pioneered that route before the war and done spadework for the U.S. Air Forces Ferrying Command, which took over the job of shuttling all planes from U.S. factories to the world's battlefronts. The importance of other African routes has skyrocketed in proportion to the decline of British power in the Mediterranean...
...sound trite and some simply absurd, but the laughter disappears after a few attempts at blood-sucking. If you can forget sensitive, psychological drama for a while, you'll be sitting on the edge of your seat most of the evening. And you may not feel like taking the shortest route home through the darkened Yard after two and a half hours of well-played horror. In fact, you may steer clear of all shadowy places for the next few nights...
...north, the latitude of Hamburg, Bremen and other north German targets, June nights provide the shortest hours of protective darkness, the fewest nights when cloud conditions are suitable (i.e., neither perfectly clear nor thickly blanketed). In fact, if weather and clock were allowed to control air operations from Britain, there could never be a second air front in Europe. Now the R.A.F. is shaking off the shackles, risking more in order to achieve more...