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£ FIGHTING AMERICAN. Edited by F. van Wyck
lason. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, Inc .. 1943. 747
aoes; $4.50.
" "here Amatems at 'Var is an anthology of eyewitness actS
of all our wars, TIle Fightillg Americall covers ,.ery
h the same ground with fiction stories based on fact. The
~ htillg American is much better reading, but is not as valuas
a source of actual incidental history.
lonel Mason has included fortv-fi,'e selections, from Brad-
's campaign against Fort Du'quesne to \Vorld "VVar I.
Fenimore Cooper, Inglis Fletcher, Stewart Edward
'te. Zane Grey, Herman Melville, John \V. Thomason Jr.,
Kinlay Kantor, and many other favorites have portions of
, work in this book. The book is a fine gift for a soldier who
. to read of soldiers at war.
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The Unvanquished
I:\A. By Kwok Ying Fung. New York: Henry Holt and
mpanY, 1943. 191 Pages; Illustrated. $5.00.
he sort of person who enjoys a good photograph for photogy's
sake will treasure the eighty-four pictures in this book,
the pictures are much more than mere examples of the art
the camera expert. Combined with the restrained and unhdy
text, the photographs present a conception of China that
too little known to most of us. \Ve have learned to think of
ally as a nation of squalor and suffering-China depicts
of the beauty both of the land and of the spirit of the
Ie. The pages of the book are 91;2 by 12 inches, which
its the pictures to be reproduced large enough to bring
their full effect.
Nathan Hale Was First
E Spy IN AMERICA. By George S. Bryan. Philadelhia:
J. B. Lippincott Company, 1943. 234 Pages; Supplent;
Bibliography; Index; Illustrated. $3.00.
FromNathan Hale to Pablo \Vaberski, America has been a
ground for spies, our own as well as those of our enemies.
Brvan's research has enabled him to describe the work and
pe;sonalities of the better known or more important spies
operated in this country from Revolutionary \Var times
the days of \VorId \Var I. During the Civil \Var spies for
sides were most active. The story of Albert S. Rowan is
from the Elbert Hubbard version, as are most of the other
in this book different from the popular versions.
No More Mata Hari
AT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SPIES AND
ABOTEURS. By Will Irwin and T. 1\1. Johnson. New
¥ork: W. W. Norton, 1943. 219 Pages; Index; Illustrated.
.50.
is is easily the most interesting, and probably the most
hIe, of the entire Norton 'War Services" series. The
rs have done a superb job of presenting the theory and
ice of espionage and sabotage, with its ramifications.
have worked conscientiously to strip the subject of its
glamor, but have not let interest suffer in the process .
. art of gaining information from the enemy or a p0-
I enemy, and preventing him from obtaining like in forn
from our own country. represents more hard work than
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