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... names as Mark Lane and Kensington, Addison Road. Readers of Brigadier Bernard Fergusson's fine stories of Burma in the Second World War, Beyond the Chindwin and The Wild Green Earth, will find much that is rewarding in RETURN TO BURMA (Collins. 25s.). This ...
... certain standards against which the attainments of other national schools might be measured. Since the beginning of the Second World War it has been the case only in a sharply diminishing degree; of recent years it has been true no longer. Where today British ...
... are positively hair-raising. TOLLER REPORTS (White Swan Press. 10s. 6d.), by Jeremy Taylor, is a collection of humorous Second World War essays. They have the authentic touch, and Mr. Taylor is particularly adept at conjuring up the more joyous absurdi ties ...
... the Yerba Buena Jazz Band, a San Francisco group who formed the backbone f the New Orleans revival movement after the second World War. No one is ready to imit that this oldtimer is played .out, but the tracks of this Good Time Jazz LP are evidence ol ...
... who knew Turkey in the days when Baron Wangenheim was playing the same game of intrigue which von Papen played in the Second World War, this will no doubt make diverting reading, but somehow the author's tales of the vanished pomps of yesterday seem ...
... Britain and the need for radical reform in the 1960's. Fourteen British submarine men won the Vic toria Cross in the Second World War, many of them in the Mediterranean, where the toughest submarine campaign was fought by men like Wanklyn in Upholder ...
... German Spy Chief The Character of Admiral Canaris Perhaps the most astonishing personality thrown up by the Second World War was Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Chief of the German Military Intelligence. This man, who came of a prosperous Westphalian industrial ...
... desperately even to exist. For many years, few voices were raised in Italy against Mussolini. And since the end of the Second World War, Western democracy has been fighting a holding campaign against Communism. Sherman Adams' memoirs of his career as assistant ...
... 10s. 6d.). And how affecting it is, when you've known the first World War and its literature, to find a novel of the second World War essentially the same in tough comradeship, cussing, sex- talk, fighting, bravery almost as if Time had hiccupped. No ...
... a host of hard and quick decisions, and none was surely harder than that which had to be taken by Lord Wavell in the Second World War when he had to risk throwing away the fruits of his North African campaign in favour of a Grecian adventure dictated ...
... (elling by the troops as their mascot. But experience part of the book is the short Pr?'°gUp :..nK was a very in the Second World War. Mile fntrv and was active Resistance worker in her native ntences she captured by the Gestapo. In a few bnel sen iveys ...
... of the Italian peninsula from its roots in Etruscan civilisation to the creation of the Republic at the close of the Second World War. The energetic splendour of the Renaissance, of course, commands a full measure of the author's interest; but his attempt ...