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(Mayer-Burstyn), made by OWI Overseas in 1943 for European distribution, is now for the first time released in the U.S. Its star: Arturo Toscanini, who (with Tenor Jan Peerce, the Westminster Choir ...

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October 1942: A German soldier with a Soviet PPSh-41 submachine gun in Barrikady factory rubble. (Wikimedia Commons) Eighty-three years ago today, the largest and bloodiest battle in human history ...