Volume 46, Number 19 · December 2, 1999
Mission Possible
By Gordon A. Craig
A Quiet American: The Secret War of Varian Fry
by Andy Marino
St. Martin's, 403 pp., $26.95
Surrender On Demand
by Varian Fry
Johnson Books/US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 272 pp., $15.00 (paper)
In small towns across America, in the months following the end of the Second World War, you were apt to discover, if you went into a saloon on a Saturday morning, a row of neatly dressed young men sitting at the bar, each with a shot of whiskey and a glass of beer in front of him, as well as a freshly opened pack of cigarettes and the change from a five-dollar bill. If you seated yourself beside one of them, there would be a decent pause until you had ordered your drink, and then he might ask,'Were you ever in Majuro (or, as the case might be, Simpson Harbor or Okinawa)?' Whatever you answered, he would then tell you the story of his war.
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