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Beevor is not a writer much given to profound reflection. His big-picture take on D-day could be summed up as, It could have gone better, but it's amazing that they did it at all. Yet with its rigorous research and its wealth of human detail, D-Day is a vibrant work of history that honors the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men and women. Which is serious praise...
...friends knew him as Ludo, which means "I play" in Latin. But there was little playful about Ludovic Kennedy, a broadcaster and writer of high seriousness, who died Oct. 18 at 89. A Briton of aristocratic lineage, Kennedy was an advocate of foxhunting and showed something of that merciless instinct in his investigative journalism, which he devoted to exposing miscarriages of justice. His book 10 Rillington Place inspired the posthumous pardon of Timothy Evans, a young Englishman wrongly executed for murder in 1950, and hastened Britain's abolition of the death penalty. The Airman and the Carpenter, Kennedy's exploration...
...Staff writer Max N. Brondfield can be reached at mbrondf@fas.harvard.edu...
Dhruv K. Singhal ’12, a Crimson editorial writer, lives in Currier House...
...Staff writer Lucy D. Chen can be reached at lucychen@fas.harvard.edu...