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SHORTER REVIEWS of Some of the Latest Books
... in South Africa. His account of the plot to force General Smuts into a declaration of neutrality at the start of the Second World War will be an eye-opener to those who are apt to forget that it is not yet half a century since the close of the South African ...
NORTHWARD HO!: The March of the Pioneers in Canada's Arctic Territories
... are positively hair-raising. TOLLER REPORTS (White Swan Press. 10s. 6d.), by Jeremy Taylor, is a collection of humorous Second World War essays. They have the authentic touch, and Mr. Taylor is particularly adept at conjuring up the more joyous absurdi ties ...
FEUDAL FEEDING TO FACTORY FEEDING: Sir Noel Curtis-Bennett's Survey
... who knew Turkey in the days when Baron Wangenheim was playing the same game of intrigue which von Papen played in the Second World War, this will no doubt make diverting reading, but somehow the author's tales of the vanished pomps of yesterday seem ...
AN ATLANTIC WAYFARER: And Other Reviews in Brief
... and Polden. 5s.), in which, with true modesty and with crystal clarity, he describes the actions of the regiment in the Second World War. We follow the Grenadiers through their difficult battles in Italy and from the beachheads to the heart of Germany, and ...
THIRTY YEARS TO WRITE THE HISTORY OF WORLD WAR: Sir James Edmonds Completes His Record
... the German Army was broken, how necessary it was for its leaders to seek an armistice to prevent complete collapse. The Second World War has now been over two-and-a- half years, but book publishers, partly for lack of printing machinery and because of slowness ...
AN EXOTIC TRINITY MAKE AN OMNIBUS: Victorian Novels of High Society, and Other Books Briefly Reviewed
... T. C. F. Prittie, some time cricket correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, found a similar relaxation during the Second World War, and the result is MAINLY MIDDLESEX (Hutchinsons. 16s.), a series of essays compounded as a prisoner-of-war in Germany ...
TROTTIE TRUE: THE GAY EDWARDIAN: Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon Produce Another Delightful Story in Their ..
... Fellow and Lecturer of Trinity College, Cambridge, who has been given the task of writing the Official History of the Second World War. Mr. Butler's appointment will be part-time until October 1947, full-time for the ensuing year, and then part-time again ...
CINEMA CAMEOS
... 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 ...
BOOKS: REVIEWED
... sets in with the attachment to Pimlico. The story begins (I should calculate) in the late 1880's, and ends during the Second World War. It is, while implicitly modern in its values and view-point, not in th?' main modern as to actual time. I do not suggest ...
OUR BOOKSHELF: LATE HAVE I LOVED THEE; NO RESTING PLACE; THE LOVELY AND THE LOVED; TEMPESTUOUS PETTICOAT
... 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 ...