Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...According to Military Historian Vagts (The History of Militarism, Landing Operations), the legend of Eustace the Monk grew up after England's naval victory at the Battle of Dover on Aug. 21, 1217 where the defeated French leader Eustace, a mercenary soldier and "master of pirates," was beheaded. His ghost and invisible ship were detected by one Stephen Crabbe of England...
Cyprus' doughty British Governor Sir John Harding also had his own daily round of troubles. From rooftops and balconies terrorists tossed three bombs one morning into the long, narrow Nicosia street that British troops call "murder mile." One soldier was killed, twelve were wounded. When the British closed down 37 shops and evicted 17 families along the street, a crowd of schoolgirls suddenly filled the pavement, shouting "Death to Harding." The girls paraded down the street, defying military police who were patrolling against just such an outbreak...
...Joubert ("Fritz") Duquesne, 78, South African-born mastermind of one of the biggest (33 men and women) spy networks ever uncovered in the U.S., inveterate Anglophobe, who in 1942 was sentenced to 18 years in prison for Nazi espionage; in a New York City hospital on Welfare Island. A soldier of fortune who played his crafty hand against England for more than 40 years, Duquesne dated his checkered career as international intriguer back to the Boer War (1899-1902). A cool, cunning poseur, he signed his reports to Germany with a rubber-stamp cat's paw, claimed to have...
...Readers can deduce this compassion from his apparently brutal narrative; what is at work here is not the notorious German talent for self-pity. Men-Russian and German-die in the same mechanical terms, and the Russians share and share alike. Finally, young (34) Narrator Ledig denies himself a soldier's permissible cynicism. His major is led at the end to a military funeral, where, after listening to the "unctuous" chaplain, he and his sergeant exchange an almost mute confidence. Everything but God has been destroyed, the sergeant seems to say. "It would be unthinkable," replies the major...
...TRAIN WAS ON TIME, by Heinrich Böll (142 pp.; Criterion; $3), carries its Eastern-front German soldier-hero to his death while he is still on furlough in the Ukraine, which is about as ironically far as the you-can't-win theme has ever been taken by a war novelist. The soldier, Andreas, is a kind of displaced poet in uniform. From the moment his leave-train begins puffing towards Przemysl one autumn day in 1943, Andreas is haunted by the irrational idea that he is a bridegroom of death being rushed into one of destiny...