... 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 ...

... the train guard, another fine study (Jeffrey Hol land), a singer (Gemma Craven), an elderly woman visiting Lon don (Carmen Silvera), a fin ance for Gareth Forwood (Pat Hassell) and a nondescript ex- Army man (David Henry). Praise for a really fine pro ...

... the wearer with Ruritanian court dress for the men and slinky, satin. Coco Chanel gowns for the women. Fortin- bras and his army look like a throwback to Agincourt and Hamlet, once he has embraced madness, wanders around in his pyjamas all day. Mark Rylance ...

... 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 ...

... century before the War of Independence, it describes the fight of the immigrants and the army to find good land and beat off the Indians. Miss Settle begins with a lone woman's fearful mountain trek and rescue by a solitary religious fanatic; goes back to Hannah's ...

... the peacetime Army, throughout the frustrating inter-war years. So however, un happily, does his persecutor. And Fiona, the sufferer's shallow wife, is far from indifferent to Hermiston's charms. Typically, Methuen has married the wrong woman the wrong one ...

... stylized is the make-up that we can never be certain whether we are looking at a man or a woman), and the gorgeous costumes and the rhythmic movements of battle on sea and land are a continual delight to the eye. It is perhaps another criticism of this company ...

... 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 ...