JAMES ALDRIDGE
OF MANY MEN
Wherever war was raging and danger threatening,
wherever Democracy grappled with Fascism, Wolfe
had to be. In Spain he fought for the people's Freedom;
next he is in Finland, then in Norway, later in Syria.
He meets Germans in Greece, Japanese in Burma, and
when...
Prolog Geschickt verbarg das Flugzeug sein wahres Altér. Es hatte einen frischen weiBen Anstrich und einen modernen rőten Schriftzug bekommen und sah aus wie neu. Sobald es sich aber in die Luft erhob, stÖhnte und áchzte es an allén Ecken und Enden, und lediglich die brüllenden Triebwerke...
The Last Inch At forty you were lucky if you still enjoyed flying1 after twenty years of it, and you were lucky if you could still feel that artistic pleasure of a beginner when you brought the pláne down well: a little wheel grip, a puff of dust, and the smooth conquest of that last inch above...
Prolog Geschickt verbarg das Flugzeug sein wahres Altér. Es hatte einen frischen weiBen Anstrich und einen modernen rőten Schriftzug bekommen und sah aus wie neu. Sobald es sich aber in die Luft erhob, stÖhnte und áchzte es an allén Ecken und Enden, und lediglich die brüllenden Triebwerke...
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
JACK LINDSAY, born in Australia in 1900, is a significant representative of contemporary British writing. He wrote many works on Roman and English history. In his novels with a historical background such as " Men of Forty-Eight", 1948 (Männer von 1848; 1953) and " The Great...
Chapter 1
Lord Essex sat in the Douglas aeroplane and smoked his pipe and waited for another conveyance to come and take him away. The plane had force-landed in the darkness after running into a snowstorm which had frozen its controls. It rested now on its belly in a bleak white Russian field,...
Snipers Versus Occupiers It was already an anarchy of near-starvation, and Scott began to see its points. The walls were already painted with Arabic slogans threatening fifth-columnists with death and disembodiment if they co-operated with the British. The British soldiers, who understood nothing,...
Részlet:
"Akik orosz nyelvtudásuk előnyével élve késedelem nélkül, nyomban a megjelenés után olvashatják a szovjet folyóiratokat, már több mint egy éve figyelemmel kísérik a realizmus és modernizmus kérdései körül kibontakozó vitát. Hírt is adtak róla: elmondták és...
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
JACK LINDSAY, born in Australia in 1900, is a significant representative of contemporary British writing. He wrote many works on Roman and English history. In his novels with a historical background such as "Men of Forty-Eight", 1948 (Manner von 1848; 1953) and "The Great Oak",...