01.06.09
“The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. — Victor Hugo

Panther Soup

Gimlette has written a travelogue of a vanished place, the “great wheeled city” of more than two million American soldiers that rolled up from Marseilles in 1944 to meet the German Army. He sets out with an American veteran of the campaign to see what remains of that movable metropolis . . .