... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...