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Advice from the Bleachers
BLUEPRINT FOR VICTORY. By Homer Brett. New
York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1942.204 Pages;
Index; i\laps; $1.75.
Mr. Brett calls himself a Monday-morning quarterback
in the opening pages of the book, and then proceeds on
the most violent round of second-guessing and prognostication
that the reviewer has heard since Pullman trare!
was curtailed. In short, he finds our entire war effort being
bumbled by unrealistic \Vashington, inefficient military
leaders, and everybody else within view. He drags out of
the closet all the old skeletons and rattles them with the
vigor of castanets. He finds our admirals nostalgic for
the past and our generals ignorant of the present, etc.
The main premise of the book, the dominating theme
that crops up between his verbal pyrotechnics, is that
Japan should be tackled nrst, by air from the Aleutians, and
that after this is done we can concentrate on Hitler.
Names for Posterity
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NONE i\lORE COURAGEOUS. By Stewart H. Holbrook.
New York: The Maci\lillan Company, 19.;2.
245 Pages; Illustrated; $2.50.
Soldiers and sailors of today fight better because they
have heard the stories of heroism of former wars. It is hard
to fail when the gallery of heroes from Ethan Allen to York
and \Voodfill seems to glare down at you. "Don't give up
the ship!" and "Retreat hell! \Ve just got here," make it
difficult to do less. Stewart Holbrook has started the gallery
of heroes for the present war. \Vehrmuth, the j\darble/zead.
Wheless, Bulkeley, O'Hare, Ninninger-the list is already
too long to publish. Our fighting men have certainly not
let us down. There will be a bountiful crop of new heroes
for our children to hear about.
Stewart Holbrook writes the stories in very human
fashion, without spreading halos broadcast. His story of
\Vake is one of the best, with not a word wasted, and without
pressing for literary or emotional effect. The story alone
is enough.
Another Battlefield
ACTIOi\' AGAI~ST THE Ei'\E~lY'S ~lIND. B\
Joseph Bornstein and Paul l\ lilton. New York: The
Bobbs-l\lerrill Company. 1942. 294 Pages; $2.50.
This book is not a collaboration, but two books which
conform to a general pattern. The first book analyzes the
Axis methods of weakening their enemies before a shot is
fired; the second book discusses the chinks in our O\\n
armor that play into the hands of the Axis propagandists.
Both sections appeal for unity among ourselves, since the
Axis game is won when racial, religious, or economic
groups begin to place their own advantages and prejudices
abo\'e the national welfare.
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