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Look Down in Mercy, by Walter Baxter. A strong, tough-grained first novel about the collapse of a British army captain in Burma (TIME, March...
Look Down in Mercy, Walter Baxter. A strong, tough-grained first novel about the collapse of a British army cap tain in Burma (TIME, March...
Whether very much can be salvaged from the wreck of Captain Anthony Kent is problematical, but Author Baxter lets him live for a try. It is nearly the only mercy in Author Baxter's book...
...Courage," Ernest Hemingway once said, "is grace under pressure." Look Down in Mercy is a tale of disgrace under pressure. In an uncommonly good first novel, Author Walter Baxter tells the story of an ordinary British captain and how his codes and courage crack wide open under the strain of retreat, ambush and torture in Burma in World...
Himself a company commander of a British outfit in the early Burma fighting, Author Baxter writes with authority and unblinking candor. His book is not for the squeamish. No one has brought back a truer, tougher fictional report on jungle warfare since Norman Mailer wrote The Naked and the Dead. But the shocks in Look Down in Mercy are shocks of event minus droning obscenities. Novelist Baxter writes his story of the crackup of Captain Anthony Kent with what restraint...