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THE GREAT WARSAW UPRISING: General Bor-Komorowski Tells the Story of The Secret Army, a Sombre Chapter in ..

... 1939, when Poland was overrun, some of the Polish Army officers, the General among them, escaped to France, and from there began to organise small groups of resistance. Ol this underground army he was one of the principal figures, and from 1943 its comm ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1795 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

MR. CHURCHILL'S MARATHON MEMOIRS: Closing the Ring, the Fifth Volume in the Series, Now Makes its Appearance

... pattern of Korean nobility, and battling every inch of the way, into college and into political life. At present she is the only woman member of the Korean Legis lation, and their delegate to the United Nations. Her courage is physical as it is moral, and one ...

Published: Saturday 27 September 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1807 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE LAST MONTHS OF WAR: In the Last Volume of His War Memoirs, Sir Winston Churchill Covers the Period from D ..

... grandmother, Mary Anne Clarke, a lively and engaging young woman who made up for a lack of breeding and beauty by shapeliness, abundant vitality and very expressive eyes. Her mother was a woman of some refinement her stepfather, proof-reader to a small ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1742 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

MAGIC CASEMENTS OPENING ON THE FOAM

... century before the War of Independence, it describes the fight of the immigrants and the army to find good land and beat off the Indians. Miss Settle begins with a lone woman's fearful mountain trek and rescue by a solitary religious fanatic; goes back to Hannah's ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1957
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1224 | Page: 41 | Tags: Review 

Doom Lurked in His Knapsack

... the peacetime Army, throughout the frustrating inter-war years. So however, un happily, does his persecutor. And Fiona, the sufferer's shallow wife, is far from indifferent to Hermiston's charms. Typically, Methuen has married the wrong woman the wrong one ...

Published: Wednesday 26 May 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1737 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

THE MIMING OF EASTERN FABLES

... stylized is the make-up that we can never be certain whether we are looking at a man or a woman), and the gorgeous costumes and the rhythmic movements of battle on sea and land are a continual delight to the eye. It is perhaps another criticism of this company ...

Published: Wednesday 25 September 1957
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 668 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

A PASSION FOR DOCUMENTATION: American Views on France; The Story of a Famous Courtesan; Von Manstein's Theories ..

... the champions of longevity and a much and professionally loved woman; it was she who said nearly three centuries ago that one day France would lead the world in fashion. A clear-sighted woman in more ways than one. She left, in her short will, 1,000 francs ...

Published: Saturday 21 June 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1819 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THE TEMPTATIONS OF THE PURSE

... form an army and march away to fight what exactly does a detailed, un complicated account of the campaign satirise beyond the bare statement that war is childish And The Masquerade of Souls, where a man and woman fall in love in the soul's land where there ...

Published: Wednesday 27 July 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1142 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

Sunset and Dawn

... taken to himself a temporary wife from the Yonis Barra, a dark siren who had passed through many hands before. Naturally this woman was used as a sort of Delilah by the Yonis Barra chiefs, if one can use the word Delilah when the Samson (who happens to be ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1854 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

BIOGRAPHIES AND NOVELS: A Rich Autumn Collection, With the Emphasis on People; Another Short Military History ..

... a wife, a daughter, a woman friend and a house are all waiting for the arrival of the vital, beautiful woman who will variously bring them comfort, or love, excitement or, at the very least, change. In a near-by house the woman's husband and son wait ...

Published: Saturday 17 October 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1785 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

A BOOK OF MODERN POETRY: A New Poetry Selection; Letters of the 1745 Rising; and a Variety of Novels

... young Tommy Phipps does his best to keep out of trouble but regularly ends up in love, in the Army and/or in a fix. As the author puts it, Having now been in the Army for almost three years, I was delighted to meet some soldiers at last. Mr. Guthrie Wilson ...

Published: Saturday 11 August 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1515 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review