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“ “I am running back my tent to get my sub-machinegun. There are too many Noggies to kill using a pistol!” He then ran to where his scrape was and returned with the weapon.”
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“They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, and so capriciously favored by the sinister flying squads of the NKVD.
Ironically, the arrest when it came did not shock Batya. He had prepared for it.”
― Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
Ironically, the arrest when it came did not shock Batya. He had prepared for it.”
― Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
“She knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near.”
― The Pearl
― The Pearl
“I got the pictures with the names, and they match the passport photos and names from Madrid. How did you get the manager to help?”
― Fatal Identity
― Fatal Identity
“Carson’s thesis that we were subjecting ourselves to slow poisoning by the misuse of chemical pesticides that polluted the environment may seem like common currency now, but in 1962 Silent Spring contained the kernel of social revolution.”
― Silent Spring
― Silent Spring
Robert’s 2024 Year in Books
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