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Death by Execution
After more than 20 years of warfare, the Communists would not be likely to take a charitable view of their stubborn opponents. Survivors of the war who were active in the Saigon regime would be in clear danger. How much danger is a matter of speculation. Pessimistic observers, like Columnist...
General Francisco Pizarro (Robert Shaw) was, the way Screenwriter Philip Yordan tells it, obsessed by his own bastardy. As in the case of T. E. Lawrence of Arabia, the burden of his illegitimacy weighed so heavily that it drove him to deeds of improbable and even reckless heroism. In the...
This literary eruption, however, is relatively recent. "My childhood was more political than literary," says Lady Antonia. Her father was lecturing on politics and economics at Oxford, and her mother often joined him in active campaigning. "Books were considered the thing in our family even then, but everybody went off...
Finally, in 1965, she started three years of research on Mary, digging through libraries in England, France and Scotland and revisiting most of the sites of Mary's life. During the third year, pregnant with her sixth child, she sometimes toppled over when lifting heavy index files in libraries...