Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH, by William L. Shirer. The most successful effort yet to get into one volume the grisly and disheartening history of Naziism, from the birth of its creator to his suicide in a Berlin bunker. In Hitler, argues Shirer with a wealth of...
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PORTRAIT OF MAX, by S. N. Behrman. British Perfectionist Max Beerbohm, novelist, drama critic, cheerfully malicious caricaturist, let the 20th century wash past him during more than four decades of retirement in Italy. Edwardian dandy to the end, coolly satisfied with his own limitations and common-sensibly appalled by people...
BRAZEN CHARIOTS, by Robert Crisp. The most vivid of all books about tank fighting in World War II, by a British officer who fought against Rommel in Africa.
THE KREMLIN, by David Douglas Duncan. Somehow Photographer Duncan persuaded Nikita Khrushchev into allowing him to photograph the art treasures of the czars that are still preserved in the Kremlin. The result: a stunning book.