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...hands of a hack this plot could be a sentimental monster. But Author Richter handles it deftly, intelligently, against an effective regional background. His studies of children are acute and true. The town of Bisbee, filled with miners from Cornwall, Ireland, Mexico, Sweden, Central Europe, is as lively as a good Western. The passing of the years in mine and home is pictured in clean, brief prose. The writers of 1,000-page epics look pretty paunchy beside Author Richter and his tight, effective 208-page book...
This big (790-page) novel by the author of Mozart and Of Lena Geyer is an unusually successful attempt to dramatize the central factor in the last half-century of U.S. life-big industry. To most writers, industry has been a monster-to be avoided as too grim or assailed as too inhuman. To Novelist Davenport industry is a fact to be understood. Her approach to such understanding is through the human relationships of a steelmaking family. The Valley of Decision is also a chronicle of American family life. It begins in the 1870s, when young men were dazzling...
...armor-plated monster (eleven feet high, seven feet wide and almost as long as a freight car) can speed 60 miles per hour to the scene of crime, riot or disaster. For use when it gets there it has every kind of equipment the ingenious inventors could think...
...Unprecedented concentrations of very heavy, semi-mobile artillery are the newest feature of Mot pulk. Star pieces (shown in Nazi films) are two immense mortars: the Krupp-built "Thor," a 42-cm. (about 17-in.) monster, bigger than the biggest U.S. battleship gun; and a 61.5-cm. supermonster, mounted on a four-track rail truck. These presumably were the weapons which helped to pulverize Sevastopol. They were far too big for use on quickly shifting fronts such as the Don. But, if Rostov and Stalingrad fell under siege, the Russians would probably feel their weight again...
...Like a monster warmed by the summer sun, the Nazi stirred. Along the Russian front, from the Black Sea to Leningrad, the shape, and probable direction, of his summer thrust emerged...