"Clancy, Tom - Op-Center 03 - Games of State" - читать интересную книгу автора (Clancy Tom)

Vietnam belonged to her parents, and all she knew
about Korea was that during her junior year of
college, the veterans had finally gotten a
memorial.
World War II was her grandparents" war. Yet
oddly enough, she was coming to know it best of all.
Five days before, Jody had left behind her sobbing
parents, her ecstatic little brother, her
boyfriend-next-door, and her sad springer spaniel
Ruth, and flown from Rockville Centre, Long
Island, to Germany, to intern on the feature film
Tirpitz.
Until she sat down on the plane with the script,
Jody knew almost nothing about Adolf Hitler, the
Third Reich, or the Axis. Occasionally, her
grandmother spoke reverently about President
Roose-
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then her grandfather said something respectful about
Truman, whose A-bomb saved him from being butchered
in a prison camp in Burma. A camp where
he'd once bitten the ear of a man who was torturing
him. When Jody asked her grandfather why he'd done
that, didn't it only make the toffure worse, the
gentle man had replied, "Sometimes you just have to do
what you have to do."
Other than that, the only time lody encountered the war
was on TV, when she flashed past an AandE
documentary on her way to MTV.
Now Jody was taking a crash course in the chaos
that had engulfed the world. She hated to read; TV
Guide
"articles lost her halfway through. Yet she'd
been mesmerized by the scr. ipt of the
American/german copro-duction. It wasn't just
ships and.guns, as she'd feared. It was about people. From
it, she learned about the hundreds of thousands of
sailors who'd served on the icy waters of the
Arctic, and the tens of disthousands of sailors who'd
drowned there. She learned about
Tirpitz's
sister ship the
Bismarck,
"the terror of the seas." She learned that factories,
based on Long Island, had played a large,
proud role in building warplanes for the Allies.