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...crimes still continues," a publisher recently complained. "Every year we have to wade through another biography about him!" Year after year the Hitler Welle, or "Hitler Wave," sweeps from Europe to the U.S., bearing book after book by aides and generals, resisters and reconstructed Nazis. Just as the jaded reader is about to shout "Hitler, go home!" along comes a study like this one. Massive, yet gracefully written, it is the best single volume available on the tortuous life and savage reign of Adolf Hitler...
...weeks ago, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger sent an urgent query to former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, now a Reader's Digest executive in Washington. What was Ford's private assessment of Kissinger? The answer came back: excellent. In almost every important negotiation Kissinger is asked if Nixon will survive, and if not, what will happen to Kissinger in particular and foreign policy in general...
...from the air and made escape from the mountain impossible. For more than a week, the little band lived on a daily ration of a square of chocolate and a cup of wine. Eventually, as both food and hope dwindled, the survivors reached a decision that any well-fed reader will find difficult to judge. They began to eat the flesh of their dead companions. The grisly diet enabled 16 of them to sustain life for 70 days, until the snows had melted enough for two of the party's strongest members to make a harrowing, ten-day descent...
...same time, however, Jackson's most speculative recent projects--I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader and Memories of Underdevelopment--both filled up enough to be held over for weeks. "I.F. Stone wouldn't have made it a year ago," he says. But Jackson probably isn't giving the public enough credit. Cambridge has been in the vanguard of the movie revival business since the early '50s, and while interest may have decreased at times, the audiences has always survived...
...Death, Sleep & the Traveller depends utterly on its unobtrusiveness and its reticence. Hawkes demonstrates tight-rope delicacy in bringing off the most predictable of metaphors, as when Allert feels in his own large body the dangerous stasis of the ocean liner unmoving in a rough sea. Surely the reader does not need to be bludgeoned with such passages...