BOOKS IN BRIEF
Books In Brief HERE IS YOUR WAR, by Ernie Pyle. Henry Holt. $3. This collection of Ernie Pyle's full-length columns on the Tunisian campaign is a readable, remarkably vivid account of his...
...For actually—and over here we all knew it —the worst was yet to come...
...THUNDERHEAD, by Mary O'Hara...
...SINCE YOU WENT AWAY, by Margaret Buell Wilder...
...This delightful novel carries on the adventures of the McLaughlins, centering around the stallion born of Flicka and the family's financial crisis...
...UNCLE SAM VERSUS INFLATION, by Otto H. Ehrlich...
...A sunny, beautiful book, full of the Wyoming outdoors and the warmth of people—and, always, horses...
...Rarely does a sequel come up to the origin-a!, but Thunderhead is even better than its predecessor, My Friend Flicka...
...2.75...
...The Scripps-Howard roving reporter steers clear of the controversial problems of military strategy, political involvements, and war objectives as beyond his reporting assignment, but he has a lot to say on what soldiers think—or don't think—about...
...He has 3the human touch, and everything he writes is built around or about people...
...Letters to a soldier from his wife, covering the prosaic details of day to day living of a wartime family without its male head...
...After victory, he wrote, "The greatest disservice the folks at home did our men over here was to believe we were at last over the hump...
...This collection of Ernie Pyle's full-length columns on the Tunisian campaign is a readable, remarkably vivid account of his experiences with the troops and airmen from his voyage across the Atlantic to the end of the North African campaign...
...Occasionally moving but totally lacking the sensitive discernment of Ann Leighton's While We Are Absent...
...The author is an instructor in economics at Brooklyn College...
...Mary O'Hara writes about horses and humans with exquisite perception...
...The dangers of inflation, and suggested methods of its control, pictorially presented in cartoons...
...Whittlesey House...
...First-class reporting...
...Excellent descriptions of day to day fighting, the effect on war on fighting men, and the minutia of their lives: the food, sleep, conversations, boredom, excitement, filth, and stench of war...
...Recommended...
...Harpers...
...J. P. Lippin-cott...
Vol. 7 • November 1943 • No. 44
