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Leading the armored pack when Montgomery chased Rommel, the Desert Fox, out of Africa was hard-riding Herbert Lumsden, commander of the X Corps. A lieutenant general at the age of 45, he was accounted one of Britain's most brilliant young commanders...
...rushed to his room to pack. Belle locked him in it. Then she ran across an open field between the lines of fire, hitting the dirt when shells exploded 20 yards away and bullets cut her clothing. The information she got to headquarters was invaluable. There were only 1,000 Union troops in Front Royal itself. Assaulted, they lost $300,000 worth of stores they did not have time to burn, also failed to burn the bridge over the Shenandoah. The road to Washington was open, and only the delay of the Confederate cavalry saved Banks's army...
...lovers were moved by the revelation of a hitherto unpublished story about the third Byrd expedition's escape from the Antarctic in 1941. Hemmed in by a closing ice pack, the 26 men at the Palmer Land camp had to risk an emergency flight out in their battered Condor plane. The plane could make only two trips, would be barely able to carry the men. What to do with their well-loved sled dogs...
...Salt River, two miles from the camp. He wore faded Army fatigue clothes, was drenched with the rain which was falling outside. As George Jackson, the lone man on duty, stared at him, he calmly announced that he was an escaped prisoner. Though he carried a 100-pound pack containing food, cigarets and other supplies, he politely asked for something to eat. He offered no resistance when Jackson reached for the telephone. At almost the same time two more Germans knocked at a farmhouse three miles away, also surrendered...
Without a Hitch. Near Fort Belvoir, Va., an Army private, unable to thumb a ride to Washington, held out a pack of cigarets, got a ride in the first...