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...decided to do things the hard way, perhaps the unnecessarily hard way, by making a frontal assault on the Union position, expected Longstreet to advance at dawn. At 10 o'clock the front was still quiet, and Lee cried out: "What can detain Longstreet? He ought to be in position now." Noon passed, and Longstreet did not feel ready to undertake his seemingly tough assignment. Not until 3:30 did the advance begin; it was 6 when the Confederates actually got a brief foothold on Little Round Top, only to be driven back. Had Longstreet won that bastion...
...Nearly everything but the law rode over artificial State boundaries. In the depression the U.S. began to demand that its Executive be more executive; that the Government govern more, assume the responsibility for its citizens' economic security and livelihood. So the New Deal, although it failed in its frontal assault on the Court, in 1937, was able by indirection to get the Nine...
Military observers believed that Hitler could gain a cheaper victory by invading Eire than by a frontal attack on Britain itself. Idle at German bases were two new 35,000-ton battleships, two 26,000-ton battle cruisers, perhaps two pocket battleships, at least three heavy cruisers and five light cruisers in addition to destroyers and submarines. A surprise attack on Eire using this force as escort might easily succeed if British ships, scattered widely on many duties, were not available to engage it. Once in Irish ports, the Nazis would be difficult to dislodge...
...Avila Camacho is primarily an Army man and went off to his first revolution when he was 17, but he is a very special kind of soldier-so special that his enemies nicknamed him El Soldado Desconocido, the unknown soldier. His specialty was persuasion. Instead of meeting rebels in frontal conflict, he would take an airplane, fly straight to their camp, sit them down on a log and pacify them with sympathetic conversation and promises-which, surprisingly enough for a Mexican general, he kept...
...sudden flights, escapes, rail-riding mobs, secret service, forlorn defenses, intrigue, massacres, exile, and there is the usual restrained Roberts love story. There are also great scenes: the headlong flight by sea of thousands of tory refugees and British troops from Boston; the heroic stupidity of the repeated British frontal attacks at Bunker Hill, seen through tory eyes from Charlestown windows and roof tops...