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236 THE FIELD ARTILLERY JOURNAL March NATION-WIDE BEST SELLERS among non-fiction as reported by the New York Times as we go to press: SEE HERE, PRIVATE HARGROVE $2.00 By MARION HARGROVE SUEZ TO SINGAPORE $3.00 By CECIL BROWN QUEEN OF THE FLAT-TOPS $3.00 By STANLEY JOHNSTON THEY WERE EXPENDABLE $2.00 By W. L. WHITE VAN LOON'S LIVES $3.95 By HENDRIK WILHELM VAN LOON LEE'S LIEUTENANTS $5.00 By DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN REPORT FROM TOKYO $1.00 By JOSEPH C. GREW TORPEDO JUNCTION $3.50 By ROBERT J. CASEY GUADALCANAL DIARY $2.50 By RICHARD TREGASKIS EXCHANGE SHIP $2.50 By MAX HILL � See discount offer on page 232 and order through The U. S. FIELD ARTILLERY ASSOCIATION 1218 CONNECTICUT AVE., WASHINGTON. D. C. of the Elbe: Mecklenburg, Silesia, Pomerania, and East Prussia. They were part of a dynasty whose training began at the age of seven. From then on their lives were governed by a pattern that had no elasticity; they usually looked alike, thought alike, conducted themselves alike. They were not well read outside their profession. Such kindred arts of war as economics and rehabilitation held no interest for them. Their entire existence was absorbed by maps, strategy, and maneuver. The German generals wanted to be important, but they did not want to be known: theirs was a behind-the-scenes role, by a cardinal rule of the caste. In time the generals decided Hitler was their man and helped maneuver him into power. Then their troubles began, as Hitler had his own ideas and wasn't easily controlled. He was their antithesis so they despised him, but with strikingly few exceptions he bested them at every turn. The "how" is Riess's theme. The day of the generals is over no matter which side wins ultimately. The generals know it but can do nothing about it: Hitler is too far on top and too all-cognizant of things going on about him. The Self-Betrayed reads quickly and is important background for all the recent German campaigns. The portraits of the individuals referred to are beautifully clear, adding up to a picture that gives one a mural, as it were, to which to add as the German army moves across the scene. J. M. C. NAZIS IN THE WOODPILE. By Egon Glesinger. 244 pages; appendix; endpaper map. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1942. $2.00. The Nazis have taken to the woods, literally, in their prosecution of the war. In Nazis in the Woodpile Dr. Glesinger gives an astonishing account of Hitler's furtive pre-war plans to enlist the European forests on the side of the Reich. He traces the development in sharp clear outlines through its international complexities to its large scale wartime operation, and thereby sheds light on the mystery of apparently inexhaustible German resources. Through research extending back over pre-war years the Nazis have discovered in wood a magic raw material source of sugar, motor fuel and lubricants, cattle fodder, textiles, structural materials, and chemical by-products. Wood is an essential factor of the "Ersatz Industries," and as the author says, "its manifold uses tend to prove the Nazi belief that one can make almost everything from anything." The schemes of the Nazi leaders to acquire a controlling grip on the world's wood and to turn it to account in the larger schemes to subject the world stand out with cold convincing reality on the pages of this authoritative book. In the prefatory words of Douglas Miller, the story of Nazis in the Woodpile "is as full of thrills and intrigue as an oldtime international spy tale." F. E. J.
1943 BOOK REVIEWS 237 FOR PERMANENT VICTORY. By Melvin M. Johnson, Jr., and Charles T. Haven. 246 pages. Wm. Morrow & Co., Inc. $2.50. We shall win this war, but will we win the peace that follows? That is the question that is in the minds of all thinking Americans. Will we, as a nation, commit again the awful blunders that followed the Treaty of Versailles in November, 1918? Will we slip quietly back to our mere money-making, our apathy, our indifference to world affairs, our complacency, lulled to sleep by pacifists and isolationists, or will we stay wide awake and for once put into practice the very old and very wise advice: "In time of peace, prepare for war"? The authors of For Permanent Victory carry you along the road of armament development from the old flint lock rifle to the modern machine gun and tank; they carry you through the wars we have fought and point out how in every era of peace we have permitted our army and navy to be neglected, in fact, often treated with hostility and contempt. Apparently neither Congress nor the people have considered it necessary to keep abreast of the development in arms and munitions made by the other nations: our weapons were allowed to rust, our army and navy reduced to a ridiculous size. Our ships and our forts were barely kept in serviceable condition, and even when the distant thunder of war was heard we turned a deaf ear and waited until the storm broke around us in all its fury. America is the birthplace of the airplane and the submarine, as well as of the machine gun, and yet we have permitted these things—the weapons of protection—to be developed by and for the use of the battlefields of other nations. We have turned our backs on the greatest guarantee of peace in the world—Preparedness. We have failed to look ahead and today we are paying the price of our lack of vigilance. No longer can we say with conviction—"It can't happen here." Then these two thoughtful authors point out the road running into the future that we, as a nation, should follow in maintaining peace, and each milestone on the road is marked "PREPARE." C. T. W. POSTMORTEM ON MALAYA. By Virginia Thompson. 323 pages; bibliography; index. The Macmillan Company, 1943. $3.00. This book is not a "quickie" which has been rushed out since the fall of Singapore to take advantage of the current interest in the southwest Pacific. It does analyze critically the why and wherefore of the British failure PRIZE PAIR FOR PERSONAL PROTECTION For Yourselves: $1 By the experienced MAJOR W. E. FAIRBAIRN The top-notch book that raises "dirty" fighting to a science. See discount offer on page 232 and order through For Your Family at Home: Hands Off! The manual of defense measures designed for a woman's strength and stature. 75c UNITED STATES FIELD ARTILLERY ASSOCIATION 1218 CONNECTICUT AVENUE WASHINGTON, D. C.
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