tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post6654558521431916853..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Final approach to BerlinUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-88992327968408395992008-10-28T07:41:00.000+00:002008-10-28T07:41:00.000+00:00The Candy Bombers was published in 2008 and runs t...<I>The Candy Bombers</I> was published in 2008 and runs to 624 pages. <BR/><BR/>The whole tone of the book is disturbing, and is summed up in these quotes:<BR/><BR/><I>'The Siberians washed their faces in the toilet, believing that this was what they were for. Unaccustomed to electricity, they would marvel at light-bulbs. They demanded that the glowing orbs be handed over, held them delicately, packed them carefully, and planned to unveil them back home, in front of their awed family and friends, to be used to light their squalid huts on the steppes.'</I><BR/><BR/><I>'Two years after the end of the war, the broadly held conviction that the United States' occupation of defeated Germany would be brief had been quickly discarded'.</I><BR/><BR/>I see that the author, Andrei Cherny was the youngest White House speechwriter in American history. In 2000 he was the lead negotiator and chief drafter of the national Democratic Party platform and was a senior speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore. His gives his occupation as 'criminal prosector' and is an officer in the US Navy Reserve. <BR/><BR/>A timely reminder that certain attitudes are not exclusive to the Republican party.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com