BOOKS IN BRIEF
Books In Brief AMERICAN GUERRILLA IN THE PHILIPPINES, by Ira Wolfert (Simon and Schuster, $2.50). An amazing story of an American Navy lieutenant's adventures after the Philippines had fallen to...
...It is the current Book of the Month club selection—and it is, incidentally, unusually attractive for a wartime book...
...An amazing story of an American Navy lieutenant's adventures after the Philippines had fallen to Japan...
...A fine blend of action, humor, and love, marred only by an awkward translation from Swedish...
...More thrilling than a spy story and, for all its jungle flavor, as American as a milkshake...
...Brogan is a British professor who has traveled through most of the United States and has tried hard to find a pattern in America's past and present...
...Didier...
...Probably because he doesn't write with an accent, the book is much better than his broadcasts, but hardlv worth S'2...
...It is often, also, patronizing and too general to have meaning...
...His analysis of our pioneer heritage, melting pot, politics, geography, and living habits is often enlightening, with a foreigner's perspective...
...A running commentary on H. V.'s last buzz around Europe...
...Brogan, for all his urbanity and sureness, can't put his finger on what makes America run...
...EUROPE NOW, by H. V. Kaltenborn...
...Someone should have suggested that he investigate America's secret weapon—humor...
...SHAPE OF DANGER, by Axel Kielland (Little, Brown...
...An exasperating, smug, smooth, but interesting book...
...Although the book has some interesting little sidelights and observations, the reader will get the unmistakable notion that H. V. didn't make the trip so much to gather information as to disseminate his own ideas...
...Richardson's escape to Leyte...
...Maybe it's just his style of writing, but his interviews with the big names of Europe sound more like lectures...
...The last half, where the Reader's Digest version is from, covers his exciting and ingenious and courageous work with Filipino guerrillas and their communication with Gen...
...A superior spy story of loyal Norwegians outwitting the Nazis and Quislings...
...MacArthur's headquarters...
...The first half gives the background, in Wolfert-Richardson-Hem-ingway prose, of Lt...
...THE AMERICAN CHARACTER, by D. W. Brogan (Knopf, $2.50...
Vol. 9 • May 1945 • No. 20
