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...Distant Thunder. The White Death, as the valley folk call it, seemed to claim its victims by the wildest caprice. One woman, buried for ten hours in the ruins of her kitchen, passed the time by telling fairy tales to one of her daughters. Another daughter lay dead and buried in the snow just beneath them. A woman of 70 was swept into the icy River Lutz and rescued from the shore more than two days later. But near by, a peasant, wearily plodding across the fields, saw his house, his wife, his mother and his three children all swept...
...week ended, many of Austria's villages were still without milk, bread or medical care. And in the mountains, the thunder of sliding death could still be heard, ominous and unpredictable...
...July 18, Taejon waited in steaming silence. The Reds were grouping on the plain in front of the ramshackle city. That night, disguised in U.S. fatigues and baggy Korean civilian dress, the Communists came. The next day, Taejon rose convulsively to life in a hail of sniper bullets, a thunder of Communist artillery fire, the rising, smoky glare of burning gasoline stores. For three days. Dean and his ragged men fought in the streets and alleys and from house to house, contesting every inch of the Red advance. On the third day, Dean manned a new 3.5-in. bazooka, which...
This book belongs to the cozy tradition of bedside belles-lettres. The selections, picked well off the main highroad of English literature, range from stormy thrillers to sunny farce, from the thunder of Samuel Johnson's prose to the lightning of Aldous Huxley's. They include little-known works by little-read writers as well as little read works by well-known writers: Maria Edgeworth, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, George Meredith, Thomas Love Peacock, William Hazlitt, Virginia Woolf. Few readers will like all of these stories, but almost everybody will be entertained...
Brute Issues. Triumph and Tragedy is the sixth and final volume, the epilogue, of Churchill's tremendous history of World War II, which he modestly calls "my personal narrative." In this volume, the thunder of military crisis is past; the tides of the war against Germany have been turned at Stalingrad and El Alamein, and the book is suffused with the glow of anticipated victory. The chronicle begins with Eisenhower's invasion of Normandy, which opened the land approaches to Germany and made Hitler's defeat certain, though not easy, quick or cheap. Churchill tells the closing...