... 1939, when Poland was overrun, some of the Polish Army officers, the General among them, escaped to France, and from there began to organise small groups of resistance. Ol this underground army he was one of the principal figures, and from 1943 its comm ...

... our troops a contemp tible army in 1914, and, in 1778, George Washington's force was called an army of scarecrows. Mr. Charles Flood in BARREN HILL (Cassell. 21s.), has followed the fortunes of Washington's Continental Army in the individual terms of ...

... pattern of Korean nobility, and battling every inch of the way, into college and into political life. At present she is the only woman member of the Korean Legis lation, and their delegate to the United Nations. Her courage is physical as it is moral, and one ...

... training methods had on the British Army, but he points out that, young as he was at his death, it is impossible to speculate on the heights to which Wolfe might have risen had he lived. As it was, Wolfe's dying robbed the Army of the last of its young commanders ...

... re-distribution. Lee| Ho is drafted into the Red Army, seduced by a Red Army girl, deserts her and the Army, and escapes with his wife to Shanghai, and finally to Formosa. Both these latter stages' of the book are admirably done, and the descriptions of Shanghai ...

... grandmother, Mary Anne Clarke, a lively and engaging young woman who made up for a lack of breeding and beauty by shapeliness, abundant vitality and very expressive eyes. Her mother was a woman of some refinement her stepfather, proof-reader to a small ...

... the champions of longevity and a much and professionally loved woman; it was she who said nearly three centuries ago that one day France would lead the world in fashion. A clear-sighted woman in more ways than one. She left, in her short will, 1,000 francs ...

... a fascinating book. Mr Arnold is of Swiss origin and received his training in the land of the best hoteliers. His subsequent career took him to America, into the US army, and thence to Arabia with the vast organisation of Aramco for whom he was camp boss ...

... a wife, a daughter, a woman friend and a house are all waiting for the arrival of the vital, beautiful woman who will variously bring them comfort, or love, excitement or, at the very least, change. In a near-by house the woman's husband and son wait ...

... young Tommy Phipps does his best to keep out of trouble but regularly ends up in love, in the Army and/or in a fix. As the author puts it, Having now been in the Army for almost three years, I was delighted to meet some soldiers at last. Mr. Guthrie Wilson ...

... unspectacular heroism on the part of a young man and a girl. He is a soldier returning to Sydney after the war she, a pretty young woman in love with him, but realising that his affection for her is more casual. It is not until after that light feeling of his ...

... is now a major industry in some places and a form of art wherever it is practised. A novel about a woman and two men who are in love with her a woman, moreover, who can't decide with which of the men she is more in love sounds simple, and some might ...