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... OUR BOOKSHELF THE SECOND WORLD WAR. Vol. V. Closing the Ring. By Winston S. Churchill. (Casse// 30s.) CHANCE ACQUAINTANCES. By Colette. (Seeker and Warburg 12s. 6 d.) TWO SHADOWS PASS. By Clifford King. (Hart-Davis 10s. 6d.) MURDER BY PROXY. By Helen ...
... with terms like magnificence and knock-out and breath taking. It also forewarns us of a new cycle of films about the Second World War. To use the word world in connection with the war shown in Task Force is just a bit misleading, however. Apart from a ...
... respondent. (She reminds him of the stewardess, he tells her, but tactfully.) Their romance, and their reactions to the second world war are presented with a shrewd mixture oj humour and propa gandist purpose by the same writing team that did the Ninotchka ...
... narrative unfolds dis passionately and without heroics, and forms a valuable contribution to this official series on the Second World War. From The Weaving Willow, by John Marshall (Hodder and Stoughton 7s. 6d.), in which an ardent cricketer reminds all other ...
... d lagoon long enough for the British flagship to approach and sink her, has been brought up- to-date. The war is the Second World War the hero, a love-child born as the result of a casual mating in the First World War, is a Canadian serving with a British ...
... entertained somewhat improbably both Wilde and William Morris, who loses her husband in the Boer War and her son in the Second World War while she herself succumbs to a long, jagged splinter of glass in the London blitz. Miss Morgan's somewhat rococo style ...
... she plays a novice nun, Sister Luke, who goes to work in a lepers' colony in the Belgian Congo. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Sister Luke returns to her native Belgium and begins work for the resistance, though it is not allowed by her Order ...
... pygmies had struck at the giant, as pygmies, if there are enough of them, will always do. One of the casualties in the Second World War was human dignity. There was a time in the affairs of men when foreign ministers, no matter how agile their minds or ...
... back to the Chicago of a century ago, and Mr. Hodson's English Family being sketched against the background of the Second World War. Mr. Meeker leads us most persuasively into a world of crinolines and chimney-pot hats, in which Big Business is scarcely ...
... brief and much-regretted apostasy to Ashley Gardens, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes has always lived in that enchanted district. The Second World War drove her away from one house in Barton Street, but before it was over she had returned to another. In The Merry Wives ...
... Gary Cooper, in which he describes the Civil War as a kind of rehearsal, just- happening to take place in Spain, for the second World War, there is little indication what the fracas is all about. This may be politically tactful, but it is not always dramatically ...
... conventional opinions and a strong objection to being known as the son of a gardener who was shot for cowardice and when the second World War comes, he welcomes it. Another illustration of the way Miss Goolden likes to avoid making life correspond with preconceived ...