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Corunna: A VICTORY, YES, BUT HAVE MEN EVER GONE THROUGH AS MUCH
TO GET IT?
CORUNNA. By Christopher Hibbert, Butsford. 21s.
WHAT could be more typical of our military
traditions than Sir John Moore's victory of Corunna on January 16, 18097
The victory itself was empty, the French occupation--and Igading only to successful eva- Napoleon's giving thele throne cuation. by sea. It followed a 10 tai bruther Morph-after disastrous retreat that ended a their own Bourbon dynasty and aristocracy hindi tamely given in. hopeless campaign.
British help was asked for, and a hastily seratelied-together under Sir John expedition Moore landed in Portugal.
And the victorious general died dramatically and rule- ully on the battlefield, thus avoiding that Imputation of vulgarity that the British some- times level against success and successful commanders.
In the summer of 1808 the people of Spain revolted ogulit
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Encouraged by fantastic Spanish stories
of fantantly Spanish victorles, Moore and his all army of less than 30,000 marched to the support of the Spanish armies,
The retreat
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In a brilliant stategic move, he led his force round Napo- leon's flani towards his vital communications with France. It immediately had the desired result: Napoleon took, the heat off the Spaniards and pounced towards Moore.
With 300,000
French troops
by
CORRELLI
BARNETT
Iron frost, sometimes with lash- Ing ruin and knee-deep mud.
The villages were tiny hud- dies of primitivy Ints, without food or warmth. The towns were scarce and hardly better. No supplies or resting places for the army had been orga- tised. Only wine and rum were plentiful,
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THE ENIGMA
THAT IS CALLAS
.
by NOEL GOODWIN
CALLAS: PORTRAIT OF A PRIMA DONNA by George Jollinck
(Anthony Gibbs and Phillips, 30.)
MARIA CALLAS'S life and career have made
headline news for the past 10 years.
She
is known to countless thousands who have never
set foot inside an opera house.
But Maria Callas, first lady succeed better than anybody else of the world's opera, remains art in an art that fred her spirit, enigma even to her closest
With nothing at all in friends.
her favour-her childhood was poor, and she herscit was ugly, short- sighted and to a large extent unloved the New York-born daughter of a Greek aimed at the stars and hoisted chemist
herself among them.
In the est
ak Blography her, George
an Jellinek, American critic and journalist, tries hard to convey someth of the woman underneath the glossy, stormy, publie image.
Relentlessly pressed superior Freneli forces under Scult, Moore's army swiftly dis solved into a starving mob of bleeding, barefoot drunks who Jooled and wrecked every town
Few celebrities offer much they passed.
reur-templations to the writer to Only the 'maward held together,
invent facts where none exists. This terrible scene of uitinate The author, though 'eonfessed- suffering and moral collapse ly pro-Callas in its musical illuminated by splenilld sympathics, is generally fair to acts of individual leadershly his subject in all the controver- and discipline as when Gen-sles surrounding her. cral Paget held his men in a hollow square while mutineeis stroke and the French advanced slowly Inshed stroke by guard could be heard firing not
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-(London Krepreis Service).
CHESS:
BY LEONARD DARUIK
BOTH SIDES
212
diere you can read both sides
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Having lost 5,000 men in the of the arguments in the story of retreat, Moore's troops lag- La Callas'e break with her In Spain and 00,000 within gered into Corumia on January mother, hier walkouts
striking distance, Moore began 13, 1809. Yet auch was
on
the managements on bolk sides of
to retreat to ls ships al effect of rest and warmth and the Atlantic, her sucial and pro-
Corunna.
It was Charbitmas Day, 1008, The route lay through the high Galician mountain passen. No DIN
(retreat in the lilstory of atinies hoop hops phone Din punjab pujale es
--not even Napulcon's own from thin abuo skone sho). Shop
Moscow-has been hoop unhouse
more ter woabip netipa.
rible, London Expresa Bervice.
It was bitterly cold, some- times with driving anów and
food, together with reinforco- fessional relationships. ments, Uhat this army beat their
pursuera in the ballle of The book carries the story up Corunna on January 10, though to her fateful meeting with Moore wns, dead of n round-Greek shipowner Aristotle shot wound before victory was Onassis, and her acparations complete.
from the husband who had bulle Christopher Hibbert has writher caroer. ten a fine book, moving, vivid, it is a fascinating tale of onai and thorough.
"woman's determination 14
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force a win?
Landen Repraad Razemou.
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