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...Morison just keeps rollin' along, writing the most fascinating serial about World War II that anybody has yet, with the single exception of Winston Churchill. Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls is Volume VII in Morison's history of U.S. naval operations in World War II, and marks the halfway mark in the Harvard professor's long literary voyage. "Now that the outward passage is ended," he says comfortably, "we shall be homeward bound shortly." After Volume XIV, tentatively titled The Liquidation of the Japanese Empire, Morison expects to put into port at 71, a reasonable retirement...
...Coral Seedbed. Volume VII was to have been called "The Conquest of Micronesia"; Morison had to put the reconquest of the Aleutians in somewhere, and his present gazetteer title was the result. But once he washes his hands of the melted snow of the North, Morison launches into the great drive across the Central Pacific, beginning in the Gilberts. Here was the testing ground for all future amphibious operations, the sine qua non of Japan's defeat...
...Britain at the end of the Victorian era, when he was 19. The son of an Italian illustrator, he was trained to magazine work and covered the kinds of auspicious occasions now assigned to photographers. His first big job for a British journal was the coronation of Edward VII. "Rapidity and accuracy, that was what mattered," says Matania. He had both, and British editors kept him hopping for the next 25 years. In World War I, he spent four years in the trenches, sent out thousands of drawings that established him as one of the world's best news...
...reign of Edward VII, the rakish son of this sober pair, is wittily described in the imaginary diary of a putative secretary to the King-though it passes over in silence what must have been the domestic travails of Edward's good Queen Alexandra. The forthright role of the royal family in two world wars is given due credit, and the constitutional crisis that dethroned Edward VIII gets a judicious, white-gloved examination. Bolitho concludes that, although the tasks of kingship were apparently "intolerable" to Edward, "as heir to the throne he was the noblest and most devoted Prince...
...Belgium's Baudouin, Denmark's Frederik IX, Britain's George VI, Greece's Paul, The Netherlands' Juliana, Norway's Haakon VII, Sweden's Gustaf...