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...force. But Stern Disciplinarian Lysikov Sr. disapproved of his son's ambition, as he disapproved of almost everything else about the boy. He might have disapproved even more had he known that Valery's real wish was to become an American pilot. As a teen-ager in Stalingrad, and later in the East zone of Berlin, Valery was as devoutly pro-American as his non-proletarian father was proCommunist. He seized every opportunity to tune in secretly to broadcasts of the Voice of America and the BBC, pored over contraband U.S.-history books, and whirled in delight...
Died. Theodor Plievier, 63, bestselling German author, renowned for his three World War II novels describing the fighting on the Russian front (Stalingrad, Moscow, Berlin); of a heart attack; in Avegno, Switzerland. Plievier turned to Communism shortly after World War I, wrote several anti-war novels in the early 19305, fled to Russia to become an official propagandist when the Nazis came to power. Disillusioned with the Soviet Union (although not with theoretical Communism), Plievier took refuge in U.S.-occupied Bavaria...
Zhukov was the man in charge of Moscow's defense. He administered the first major defeat the Wehrmacht suffered. Assigned to Stalingrad, he transformed a threatened Russian disaster into a German catastrophe. Then it was Leningrad's turn, and again Zhukov-ruthless and. imperturbable, yet strangely capable of inspiring his peasant soldiers-broke a German siege. From defense he turned to offense, flaming westward across the Ukraine in 1943, into Poland...
...names of more than 50,000 missing persons-mostly children, D.P.s or P.W.s-and received 91,700 letters. Last week RIAS and Suchdienst announced that they had found their 5,000th missing person behind the Iron Curtain-a lost son who had been reported missing in action at Stalingrad eleven years...
...close, the "wonder" touch has passed from Hitler to Stalin, and the scope and horror of modern war has been described with a combination of pitiless detail and powerful sweep by the best novelist who has written on World War II. Plievier richly earned that rating with Stalingrad (TIME, Nov. i, 1948), and while Moscow is not so dramatic as his earlier story, it is the kind of book that leaves a residue of flaming images in a reader's mind. The second volume of a trilogy, it is to be followed by Berlin, already published in Germany...