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...much lower toll than the 75,000 some planners feared would become casualties. There might have been far more if the Germans -- who were without their commander, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, or any air cover -- had not waited 10 hours before sending the first tanks of the veteran 21st Panzer Division into action against the invaders...
...American Jesuit and a former student. However, as the Pope's conservative eminence grise, the Cardinal is also one of the most despised men in Catholicism. Critics decry his hard-line ways and his apostasy from the seeming liberalism of his youth. They call the German-born prelate "Panzer Kardinal" and conjure up images of Huns and German despots. "He is very sweet -- and very dangerous," the Swiss theologian Hans Kung says. Ratzinger helped force Kung out of a professorship at the University of Tubingen for, among other things, arguing that the church -- speaking through the Pope and its bishops...
...Jurassic Park for a sneak preview. Then things go spectacularly wrong. The novel's first half is a controlled tram trip through this high-tech zoo, the second half a terror- filled obstacle course strewn with dinosaurs amuck: swooping pterodactyls, dilophosaurs that spit venom, a famished tyrannosaurus and a Panzer division of velociraptors, the meanest and cagiest of the menagerie...
...human Panzer division, who is only 23 yards short of surpassing 1000 total collegiate yards, has only been dropped for a loss twice in his Harvard career...
...Axis began to crack. In July, German and Russian armored units collided in the Kursk salient in what remains the greatest tank battle in history: 6,000 tanks, 4,000 aircraft, 2 million men. The Germans lost almost all their eastern-front panzer divisions just as the Allies under Montgomery and George Patton were landing on Sicily. Germany intervened in Italy after Mussolini was overthrown on July 25, 1943. (On April 28, 1945, partisan forces would shoot him dead and string up his body by the heels in the Piazza Loreto in Milan.) It would take the Allies nearly...