Word: war
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Manfred Rommel, Stuttgart mayor and son of "Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel: "It's sad for the German people that they must admit it was better to lose in war than win. But we have to admit it. It would have been terrible had Hitler...
DIED. Ralph Thompson, 75, editor, book critic and, for 23 years, secretary of the Book-of-the-Month Club; of cancer; in New York City. An Army intelligence staffer during World War II, Thompson wrote the "Books of The Times" column for the New York Times before becoming a contributing editor at TIME...
DIED. Major General Ernest N. Harmon, 85, one of World War IIs most decorated commanders; of pneumonia; in White River Junction, Vt. A West Point graduate, Harmon, better known to his troops as "Old Gravel Voice," commanded the "Hell on Wheels" 2nd Armored Division during the Allied invasion of French North Africa in 1942; the division later halted the Germans' westward plunge in the Battle of the Bulge...
...BOER WAR by Thomas Pakenham; Random House; 718 pages...
...Boer War was the British Empire's Viet Nam. Before it began in 1899, London had been asked for a mere 10,000 new troops to contain the Boer threat. Before it ended 32 months later, it had involved 450,000 imperial and colonial troops, of whom 22,000 lay dead on African soil. At least 25,000 Boers perished. And in this misnamed "white man's war," more than 12,000 blacks died on both sides. Its consequences still fuel hate in the Third World and guilt in the First...