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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) Michael Burleigh, An American Triple Threat; How a trio of generals
worked together, except when they didn't, in taking the fight to Hitler.
Wall Street Journal, Apr 9, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405
2748703806304576236633362199332.html
(book review on Jonathan W. Jordan, Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower,
Patton, Bradley and the partnership that drove the Allied Conquest in Europe
. Caliber, 2011)
Note:
(a) gimp (n): "LIMP "
gimpy (adj)
(b) Dwight D. Eisenhower
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower
(the third of seven boys; Though born David, he was called Dwight, so he
reversed the order of his given names when he enrolled at West Point
Military Academy in 1911)
Ike is pet form of Isaac. But in the case of Eisenhower, it was based on the
surname.
(c) triptych (n; Greek triptychos having three folds, from tri- + ptychē
fold)
All definitions are from www.m-w.com.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triptych
(d) politic (adj): "characterized by shrewdness in managing, contriving, or
dealing"
(e) tiffin (n): "chiefly British : a light midday meal : LUNCHEON"
(f) epigram (n): "a terse, sage, or witty and often paradoxical saying"
(g) suffuse (vt): "to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light
: FLUSH, FILL
M. Leschak>"
(2) Konrad Jarausch, German Views Of World War II. Wall Street Journal, Apr
9, 2011 (in the column of Five Best Books).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487
03712504576244953552644470.html
(On book 5: Anonymous, A Woman in Berlin; Eight Weeks in the Conquered City.
Virago Press Ltd, 2005, the review says, "This powerful was this account of
random killing, starvation and humiliation in 1945 describes those
experiences that helped persuade many Germans that they could consider
themselves victims of the war like everyone else") |
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