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Duncan Kyle writes thinking man's thrillers (The Suvarov Adventure, Whiteout!) that invariably become bestsellers in Britain, and for good reason: they combine all too human characters, masterly plotting and impeccable research. Black Camelot is all Kyle guile. The novel is set in the waning months of World War II, when the Third Reich's slimier survivors are engaged in a last-ditch struggle...
...game, "you hold the stick like an old woman with a broom!" Sputtered Molotov: "I'd like to see you try to play gorodki with glasses on!" Watching Budenny, the handle-bar-mustached old cavalryman, swig vodka at dinner, Stalin joshed: "Our Marshal goes through the vodka like Suvarov.* Too bad he doesn't resemble Suvarov in other ways...
...recently appear in this country will find "Ivan The Terrible" a characteristic product, replete with the usual recurring armies of Russian extras either besieging a Tartar castle with catapults or recovering Stalingrad with bazookas. Sergei Eisenstein, who introduced wartime American audiences to Russian military history with "Alexander Nevsky" and "Suvarov," has again probed into his country's past to come up with "Ivan The Terrible" in the process of fashioning the Duchy of Moscow into all the Russias...
...chances. The wheels were spinning now. True, for U.S. soldiers redeploying from the Riviera, Monte Carlo was out of bounds. True, there were no Britons, Germans, Russians, Italians or Latin Americans, no glittering titles, no lavish profligates. Gambling's heroic days were gone: the days when the Princess Suvarov (descendant of Russia's famed general) assaulted the bank at Monte Carlo for a solid month and left it with a daily deficit; the days when German Crown Prince Wilhelm won 2,000,000 francs on the eve of World War I, in which his father and he were...
...artists Repin and Surikov fixed in oil a sense of Russian gusto: Repin's Reply of the Cossacks to the Sultan curses in color. General Suvarov, who slaughtered the Turks at Ismail and the Poles at Warsaw, showed that in war a Russian can be ruthless. General Kutuzov, who lured Napoleon to his fate, showed that he can be shrewd...