The End Of War - A Novel Of The Race For Berlin - [World War II 02] - Plot & Excerpts
Kill the Germans! Kill all Germans! Kill! Kill! Kill! From a leaflet dropped to advancing troops, composed by the Russian propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg signed by Stalin * * * * THREE February 2, 1945, 10:15 a.m. Aboard the U.S. Navy cruiser Quincy, Grand Harbor Valletta, Malta The president squeezes his daughter’s hand. “Look at Winston,” he says. “That cigar he’s smoking is so big, I can see it from here. It’s like he’s got a dog’s leg in his mouth.” Anna laughs. “Oh my God, you’re right!” Three hundred yards off, aboard the British cruiser HMS Orion, the Prime Minister has shouldered his way between the white sleeves of two seamen in the long, perfect queue of swabbies gathered at the ship’s port rail. Churchill and his cheroot are spotted with ease, he is the only dark, animated blot in the line of British seamen, all arranged at motionless attention.
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