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...Russia at War, Werth...
RUSSIA AT WAR: 1941-1945 by Alexander Werth. 1,100 pages. Dutton...
...decades since the war ended, there has not been in English a complete history, in both military and human terms, of Russia's remarkable role. Author Alexander Werth is uniquely qualified to make the attempt. He is an English journalist who was born and raised in St. Petersburg and is perfectly bilingual. He spent all but a few months of the war actually in Russia. As a sympathetic left-wing nonCommunist, he was given unusual freedom of travel. He was one of the only two Western journalists allowed into Leningrad during the siege. He kept...
Within the Anglican Communion, the Rome-admiring Oxford movement led, in mid-19th century, to a revival of both monks and nuns. The modern deaconess movement began with the Rev. Theodor Fliedner (1800-64), pastor of a Lutheran parish in the German town of Kaisers-werth. Inspired in part by the Roman Catholic order of nursing sisters established by France's St. Vincent de Paul, Fliedner in 1836 drew up plans for a Protestant Association of Christian Nursing; by 1849 he had brought Lutheran deaconesses to France, Britain...
...September 1946, for example, Joe was at his pious best. Asked Correspondent Alexander Werth of the London Sunday Times: "Do you believe that the quickest withdrawal of all American forces in Chi na is vitally necessary for the future of peace?" Replied Stalin (whose Commu nist armies completed their conquest of China three years later) : "Yes, I do." At some dark hour of last week, while the Western world was getting ready for its Christmas, Joe reached into his hopper for the newest question list from...