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So, I couldn’t help smiling when I read the title story in Souvankham Thammavongsa’s prize-winning collection of short stories, How to Pronounce Knife. “How to Pronounce Knife” is about “not wanting to fit in,” says author Souvankham Thammavongsa. ![]() My dad and I always cracked up when he pronounced it daata instead of the North American day-ta because daata also happens to be the Bangla word for “drumstick,” a necessary ingredient in some of the most delicious curries known to humankind. “Almond,” “asthma,” “data” - growing up in a Bengali family in Mumbai, India, I was aware that some family members always pronounced those words exactly as they looked, articulating the “l” in “almond” and the “sth” in “asthma.” “Data” was the funniest. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She not only started studying at the usual early age, but she was thrust into tremendous responsibility, as the leading dancer of the young Sadler’s Wells Ballet, when still in her mid-teens. The life of Fonteyn, the most celebrated ballerina of the twentieth century after Pavlova, fits all these circumstances almost to the point of exaggeration. ![]() And they share a quality that, late in life, Margot Fonteyn identified as the one that “has helped me most”: tenacity. They start preparing professionally as children their lives are ruthlessly and narrowly concentrated on their work they have a mother to nurture them, fight for them they inspire a powerful creative personality, who then shapes them (Pavlova had Petipa Karsavina had Fokine a dozen or more, from Danilova and Toumanova to Farrell and McBride, had Balanchine) and they find themselves in their forties either finished or hanging on precariously-ballerinas don’t age gracefully into character roles and grandmother roles, the way talented actresses can. The stories of most great ballerinas, however different their temperaments, are basically the same. ![]() ![]() Search for: Search Follow Fuldapocalypse Fiction on WordPress. This avoids both of them by throwing one (plausible) German threat after another at the convoy and emphasizing the wear and tear the climate and stress imposes on the sailors. ![]() Historical military fiction, at least to me, has had the issue of “it’s going to be either realistically dull and un-dramatic, in which case I’ll read a history book that makes no pretense at narrative, or it’s going to be exaggerated, in which case I’ll read a cheap thriller that doesn’t have to be bound to an existing war.” The feat of squaring the circle cannot be applauded enough. The travails of the convoy, in no small part thanks to the PQ-17 historical experience, are both dramatic and plausible-seeming. The way MacLean sets a tone is hard to describe, but he succeeds brilliantly. I wish I had the first edition but I have the November 1955 reprint. People who know their naval history can look at the obvious parallels between the actions of the book and the ill-fated Convoy PQ-17 (which MacLean served on), but that doesn’t change its effectiveness. HMS Ulysses was Alister MacLeans first novel, later he would be famous for such. Author Alistair MacLean, a veteran of the Royal Navy in World War II, could draw on a lot of personal experience, and it shows in this masterpiece. Hms Ulysses, First Edition (64 results) You searched for: Title: hms ulysses. A rightful classic, HMS Ulysses is, in my opinion, the greatest naval action novel of all time. Ulysses by MacLean, Alistair and a great selection of related books. ![]() ![]() Their enterprise was saved from catastrophe by a shadowy sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is here revealed for the first time. ![]() The key D-Day spies were just five in number, and one of the oddest military units ever assembled: a bisexual Peruvian playgirl, a tiny Polish fighter pilot, a Serbian seducer, a wildly imaginative Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming, and a hysterical Frenchwoman whose obsessive love for her pet dog very nearly wrecked the entire deception. ![]() But at its heart was the 'Double Cross System', a team of double agents controlled by the secret Twenty Committee, so named because twenty in Roman numerals forms a double cross. The deception involved every branch of Allied wartime intelligence - the Bletchley Park code-breakers, MI5, MI6, SOE, Scientific Intelligence, the FBI and the French Resistance. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit, aimed at convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, were the targets of the 150,000-strong invasion force. Summary D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ![]() Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. ![]() |