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From a strictly literary point of view the book is consistently fine. Although much of the material is of a rather technical nature, the reader's interest never lags. Particularly effective is the chapter dealing with the heroic campaign of the English in Belgium. Nowhere does the futility of war seem more apparent than in this account of the British loss of 100,000 lives for the sake of retaining a few square miles of disease-infested swampland...
Japanese war poems are naturally written in the stilted, mock-heroic style of the Japanese classical tradition. No hints of hardship, weariness, homesickness creep...
...British navy oil in peace or war. Deterding won his knighthood by transporting that oil, not in tankers, but as ballast instead of water in ordinary ships -thereby fooling the German submarines and keeping the guarantee to the Admiralty. His part in the post-War oil scramble was less heroic. When the U. S. S. R. nationalized the Baku oil fields he began to fulminate against the Bolsheviki and later, they charged, to plot. He backed Hitler in Germany, added a German residence to his English, Dutch and Swiss homes...
...breath of the Great Fear, which is said to be the odorless exhaust generated by one of the machines which throb all around Vag. Once or twice since The Descent began, Vag has been able to rouse himself from this lethargy, but his efforts have been isolated, heroic, ineffectual...
...less than three terrible minutes the upheavals had ended. But weakened structures continued to collapse and fires broke out. One heroic youngster, a night watchman at the main power plant, realizing that fallen live wires would electrocute many, rushed into the tottering building, jerked off the switch just as the roof smashed down...