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The Author. James Hanley was born in Dublin in 1901, went to sea at the age of 13, joined the Army during the War, has worked as a stoker, cook, butcher, clerk, postman, and has been a centre of critical controversy since he began to write. His grim short stories...
Best story in the book is The Enemy. Sergeant Paschke suddenly realizes that the Russian soldier trapped in the darkness is a human being, decides to give him a chance to surrender, hesitates, is killed for his moment of humanity. His comrade kills the Russian who had considered all German...
I admit that there are many things in Liberia that demand improvement?that Monrovia is still primitive without a water supply, sewage disposal, pavements or telephones, and that the few and dim electric lights only emphasize the darkness of the tropic night. I had no sympathy with, and in fact...
Only three of the four scheduled events were run off, darkness forcing the elimination of the feature event, the ten-mile race. The spot-landing, balloon-bursting, and bombing contests only were held.
The method of his teaching, as it lives in my own memory, seems to me to have been more like a catch-as-catch-can wrestling match than like ordinary instruction. What happened was that you were summoned to his chambers in Hollis and told to bring with you your...