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Nicholas of Verdun, one of the few to sign his pieces, molded a large ornate gilt box with a sloping roof, as a shrine to the Virgin. Decorated columns divide the space where figures in relief act out scenes from the Virgin's life. Dressed in heavy gold drapery, resting on a jeweled background, the figures seem half involved with the action and half aware of the spectator. None of the other works in the show possess this shocking brilliance, yet most deal with thinking human beings acting in religious scenes. The artists begin to explore the feelings...
...this. The work is all the more remarkable because it was written by a 38-year-old part-time historian who doubles as an executive of a floor-materials company in Elizabeth, N.J. His only previous book: Dare Call It Treason, about the revolt of the French army after Verdun...
EVERY war leaves to history its particular symbols of destruction-Verdun in the first World War; Coventry, Stalingrad and Dresden in the second. In Viet Nam, the enduring symbol is likely to be Hué, once the imperial capital and long the fountainhead of the country's intellectual and artistic tradition. A year ago, during the Communists' Tet offensive, Hué was battered as was no other city in Viet Nam. It took 26 days of house-to-house, block-to-block fighting to drive out a tenacious 6,000-man invading Communist force. The U.S. Marines...
...irrational as his superiors, a fact which was largely responsible for the fatal Charge itself. But it is a concession which obscures the most interesting action of the story, which is the frightfully painful transition from the age of chivalry to that of total war--from Waterloo to Verdun...
History surrounds many battles with the aura of legend: Thermopylae, Cannae, Hastings, Verdun, the Bulge. Few of them can match in intensity and fury, or in the significance of their results, the battle of Stalingrad in 1942-43, when the long thrust of Hitler's armies into Russia was halted and reversed. This week the 720,000 people of Volgograd-as Stalingrad was renamed in 1961 during Khrushchev's destalinization campaign-mark the 25th anniversary of the end of the furious battle on the Volga's west bank, in which about 300,000 soldiers and civilians lost...