Rereading dark chapter in Allies' tale of victory
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DRESDEN, Germany -- From an altitude of 10,000 feet, Sergeant Navigator Harold Nash looked down from the cockpit of the British fighter plane as it dropped incendiary bombs on German cities and towns during World War II.
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Comment is free: Max Hastings: Unlike Iraq, the battle against the Taliban carries a flicker of a hope of success, even if it is a misguided one.
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The last major battle before winter is one NATO has fought before. That doesn't bode well for a peaceful spring
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Description: On the fourth day of battle, American troops slow their assault, with US forces battling pockets of resistance in several parts of the city.
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BAD AROLSEN, Germany- World War II is near its end. The Nazi empire is crumbling from its edges inward as Soviet and Allied forces advance.Comment
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This gold medal comes with a broken heart. This victory - as dominant as the Olympic Games have seen in years from any sport, any team, any nation - comes with a searing sense of loss.
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By Anonymous  From Kevin McGrath Sir: Charles Moore hits on an interesting definer of history: Google (The Spectator's Notes, 9 September). If you Google 'English military defeats' and hit 'I'm feeling lucky', you get an English victory at Solway Moss.
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I am reminded of an event 93 years ago, in which Franz Ferdinand was shot, plummetting Europe into war. World War III is coming, and the flashpoint is the Islamic world. Much like Serbia in 1913, it is fragile and fragmented and there is a determination by a large focused interest group to see violence done in the name of their agenda. And, in the use of violence, they have successfully advanced their agenda.
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âCharlie Wilsonâs Warâ may be more of a hoot than any picture dealing with the bloody, protracted fight between the Soviet Army and the Afghan mujahedeen has any right to be.
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What appear to be pages from the eagerly awaited final installment in the series have been circulating online.
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The decaying Ottoman bridge on  Bosnia&#39;s River Drina at Visegrad is soon to be restored, but  the community whose life around it was chronicled in an epic  novel is unlikely to be the same again.
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Gary Winickâs film may not be perfect, but it honors its source and captures the key elements that have made E. B. Whiteâs book a classic.
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Cynthia Ozick's new novel, Heir to the Glimmering World, is very much in line with the other fiction for which she is known so well. This story, like many of her others, deals with the Holocaust, obsession with scholarly arcana, mental imbalance and the lives of outsiders. The moral seriousness is evident from the start, but the novel also is a very good story.
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1. "Dark Celebration: A Carpathian Reunion" by Christine Feehan
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What will hurt more -- the early revelations, or the ending itself?
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PARIS : Parisians turned out to see French and US military columns roll through their capital in an exuberant re-enactment of the day 60 years ago when Allied forces liberated the city from German occupation.
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Letâs not lose the plot. In defense of âbadâ words in childrenâs books.