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...after he was dropped behind the German lines. The book told how DuPre helped smuggle Allied flyers out of enemy territory until the Gestapo picked him up. The Nazis tortured him with a sulphuric-acid enema, poured boiling water into his clamped-open mouth, squashed his finger in a vise, gave him savage beatings, etc. But DuPre, by his own account, never told the Germans anything, just mumbled dumbly, "I don't know," until he was finally released...
Author Treece's is the story of how Rome clamped the vise of imperial rule on the unruly western tribesmen, as seen through the eyes of the losing side. Caradoc, proud and restive young King of the Belgae, dreams of uniting all the tribes of Britain and driving the Roman occupation forces, left by Caesar, into the sea. But the Picts, the Cantii, the Iceni, jealous of their individual little sovereignties, do not want to be united. Caradoc decides to go it alone with his Belgae. The Emperor Claudius himself limps ashore, and in two decisive battles, the short...
Most of the links prove to be rusty or broken. His old employer is dead. And the employer's daughter, a girl who longed to marry well, has settled for a cheap cardsharp. The local priest is a sly opportunist, and the villagers are clamped in the narrow vise of ignorance...
...Fellows; then, are needed. But how can the Fellowship renaissance come about? Some have suggested slicing the number of Littauer Fellowships to raise the ante for each one. This is a neat bit of budget juggling, precisely what the Nieman Foundation tried when it was caught in the inflationary vise...
...Read this letter as if it were my love testament," wrote pert Clara Petacci to her paramour, "because it is the last one that you will get ... If sometimes I felt in me the desperate attempt to free myself of this amorous vise-remember how you hurt me-those were waves of revolt...