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On D-Day, September 26, 1918, Allied artillery shelled enemy trenches, beginning at Zero Hour, 4:00 am. Infantry units went “over the top” an hour and a half later, crossed No Man’s Land and attempted to take those same trenches. Zero … Continued
After four years of stalemate on the Western Front, four years living underground and fighting over the same few square miles of cratered earth, the Allied armies were on the move, pushing back the German armies toward the border. The … Continued
Watched The Great Ziegfeld last night. The movie, produced in 1935-36, was an homage to the recently departed impresario. (He had died barely three years earlier.) It was also a lifeline for his indebted widow, Billie Burke, who sold the … Continued
“Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden.” This would not have … Continued
If Rose pushed Laura to allow the “fictional truth” to rise above mere historical fact, where do we see the mother heeding the daughter’s advice? Where do we see evidence of Rose’s storytelling expertise influencing Laura? I have looked at … Continued