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Darkness closed over the valley. The sky cleared after a thunderstorm. The air was fresh and sweet with the smell of clover. There was hardly a sound except the distant thunder and the most distant echo of a gun. The cattle and horses and sheep had gone and the valley seemed empty of all life. It was five minutes to eight...
BETWEEN THE THUNDER AND THE SUN-Vincent Sheean-Random House...
...support a few thousands in ease . . . and the greater part of the human race has to live in filth and starvation to maintain an artificial system of profit." Sheean promised. The result was Personal History and Not Peace but a Sword (TIME, July 31, 1939), and now Between the Thunder...
Between 1919 (when Personal History begins) and 1942 (when Between the Thunder and the Sun ends) there occurred the aftermath of Bolshevik revolution, the Italian Fascist revolution, the Chinese revolution, the Nazi revolution, the New Deal, the Spanish Civil War and the outbreak of World War II. At some time or other Vincent Sheean managed to look in at all of them. He has a unifying sense, derived from his Marxist studies, that all these historic spasms were related forms of a common convulsion, a worldwide social revolution. He writes with vividness and candor of his own life amidst this...
Indisputable Nitwits. Some of the most ominous pages of Between the Thunder and the Sun describe the prewar scene at the Château de 1'Horizon, a villa near Antibes on the south coast of France. The chateau belonged to graciously aging U.S. Actress Maxine Elliott, aunt of Sheean's wife, Diana Forbes-Robertson. Like the society of which it is a symbol, the chateau perched precariously on a rock between the railroad tracks and the deep blue...