... l^^'-w HISTORY will have a place for the home front as well as battle-front chronicler. I can see posterity turning to Mr. James Wedgwood Draw- bell's All Change Here (Hutchinson, 10s. 6d.) to know what we did, thought, and talked about through these anxious days of war, for he is a lively, alert Pepys of journalism, netting the pass ing moment with the whoop of a boy after a butter fly. ...

... Back Room Drama it Wr as a Question o/ i re mi tl Cake-- What a dan Oires to His Country antl What His Country Owes to Him By Barry Perowne WE get every imaginable war device submitted to us, the minister began, when his visitor was seated. Thou sands! Thousands! It's amazing, really, the number of people who think they've hit on the idea that will win the war! He paused for a moment, ...

... : ^*30 Reviewed by Noel Thompson LET me start to clear the deck of this month's books by getting off my chest the war books, and those which have a wartime background, though by so doing I am relegating to a humbler position than they deserve, some of the escapist or peacetime books. But at any rate it will halve the reading for those of you who have already firmly made up your minds as to ...

... Reviewed by Noel Thompson THE dramatic and overshadowing events of the war have swamped the memories of the Spanish Civil War with all its tragedy and its rehearsals for the present conflict. Ann Bridge provides a skilful reminder in Frontier Passage (Chatto and Windus. 9s.). Interwoven with the love story of a journalist and a Spanish countess of opposing political sympathies are vivid ...

... : Reviewed by Trevor -yd lien LAST year Lord Beaverbrook presided at a dinner to his former Parliamentary Secretary, Colonel Llewellin, who was then Minister of Aircraft Production. All the M.A.P. heads were there. Beaverbrook was handed a typed programme of speeches. What, he cried. Another programme from the Air Ministry? Nonsense, M.A.P. never lives up to its programmes, let's change ...