... country, a principle of government which under lofty pretensions veiled in tyranny supported by spies and secret police, an army permeated by organised dis affection, an armed Poland, whose hunger for liberty had been whetted but not satisfied, were only ...

... he learns that the dead woman had a son, to whom she has left her entire fortune, and that Mile. Demongeot is engaged to the lucky boy. Tchk Tchk! Telik I Only Arsked involves Mr. Bernard Bresslaw (bone-headed giant of The Army Game) and several talented ...

... steadily fulfilling hope and sustaining belief. rr^HEY had begun their journey on April 28th. On July 30th they saw land the island of Puka-puka. Land An island We devoured it greedily with pur eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in ...

... World of Books-- THE CONVICTION OF MAJOR-GENERAL ROBERT GROW The United States Army officer about to enter his car during a recess in his trial by court martial at 2nd Army Headquarters, Washington, D.C. He was found guilty of recording classified military ...

... which is part autobiography but mainly the biography of his extraordinary mother, is the author's splendid tribute to the woman who, without husband, lover or friends, fought to keep her child alive, to educate him and to prepare him for the brilliant ...

... novel of considerable merit, written, incidentally, by an Australian. Helen Henev, which tells the story of a beautiful Polish woman in whom patriotism and a more domestic love burn with equally devouring flames. It is a story that you will want to read slowly ...

... More Meadows (Michael Joseph. 12s. 6d.) is her new novel, and therefore presumably pure fiction, although it is about a young woman who marries an American naval officer and goes to live in Washington. That part seems to fit, though further details do not ...

... trained in Great Britain to do their jumps over their homeland and taking part not only in the fighting of the Polish Home Army, but in the tragic, heroic Warsaw rising. General Anders has written the foreword, and Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins writes ...

... a gentle, understanding creature who loves too much and achieves too little. The minor characters, the sisters' mother, a woman artist called Corrigan, a London youth Rob Edwards, the man Dinah marries all these are brilliant. Indeed, the whole book shimmers ...

... bombing but still survives with its remain ing people making some kind of life for themselves among the ruins, while a foreign army controls events from the frontier posts round the city's perimeter. Mr. Rowdon focusses on a group of five people: a rich couple ...

... six decorations and four wounds. After that he fought against German Communists, Russian Bolsheviks, Rhine- land Separatists and the Allied armies of occupation. Under Hitler he commanded all the Brown Shirts east of the Elbe, but later organised a fighting ...

... as ever came out of that unconventional land. It is extremely talented, full of zest and an attractive kind of oddness. The Evangelist (Seeker and Warburg. 12s. 6d.) is more sober stuff, the story of a woman who discovers in herself a rhetorical power ...