At dawn on Dec 16, 1944, more than 200,000 German troops and nearly 1,000 tanks began the Battle of the Bulge by attacking 83,000 American soldiers. It became the US Army's largest land battle of ...World War II. The assault was Hitler's idea: a successful thrust to Antwerp and the sea would shatter the Western Front and the unity of the Anglo-American alliance. In remembering the battle, Toll conveys that he was an unremarkable combat infantryman who became one of the battle's nearly 81,000 American casualties.
SHAKESPEARE ON THE LEFT BANK TOLL, SEYMOUR I.
The Sewanee review,
09/2012, Letnik:
120, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Toll profiles Sylvia Beach, an American who has been rightly called the patron saint of independent bookshops. She was "canonized" for founding Shakespeare and Company, her renowned Paris bookshop ...and lending library.
MY WAY: CALDER IN PARIS TOLL, SEYMOUR I.
The Sewanee review,
09/2010, Letnik:
118, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Toll features sculptor Alexander Calder, always known as Sandy and was the youngest of three generations of renowned sculptors, each of whom was named Alexander Calder. Among other things, In late ...Jan 1929, he exhibited Romulus and Remus and Spring at the French Salon des Independants show in the Grand Palais. In a continuing display of the French gift for exquisitely refined gesture, crowds of delighted visitors pulled on Springs doorstop breasts. Newspaper coverage of Calder's work was a young artist's fantasy. There were 30 references to it in the Paris press, and soon he was famous.
An essay concerning Ernest Hemingway and A.J. Liebling is presented, focusing on how the liberation of Paris from Nazism on Aug 25, 1944, impacted their lives. Liebling wanted to cover the Paris ...story, while Hemingway wanted to create it.
