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...head of the Committee, General Charles de Gaulle answered for its actions. "Some day," he said, "a Yellow Book-a sad book indeed-will be published about the talks that took place between our Committee and the Allied Governments. You will see then that we did all we could. . . . We must recognize that [the Allies] have done much to help. . . . If their help has not equaled the high level reached by the men in the resistance movement, I prefer not to talk about...
Tokyo, 3,380½ Miles Away. The characters are skillful percolations off men mentioned in Tregaskis' book-a clownish, kindly-hearted Brooklyn taxi driver (William Bendix), a smooth, hard sergeant (Lloyd Nolan), an ex-All-America chaplain (Preston Foster), a trigger-happy, brave child called Chicken (Richard Jaeckel). These men and others as simply characterized are put through 1) quiet days & nights of increasing apprehension; 2) the raid on a nearby village (Matanikau), from which only three returned (only one, in the film); 3) cleaning out the Japanese with grenades, gasoline and TNT; 4) the ferocious Japanese naval shelling...
...Scenes of hideousness are frequent, gallantry omnipresent. A cool sense of the pictorial dominates a style metaphorically fine (if you think airplanes "steam by"). Non-belligerents will enjoy an atmosphere of accuracy (if you think English soldiers wear "mufti"). The suggestion of continual pageantry runs pleasantly throughout the book-a relief from recent War stories, whether patriotic or sordid. Author Jacks might have been to the Crusades...
...bring greater prosperity to business and more of the good things of life to all the people? The answer is in this book-a simple and esay-to-operate plan, revolutionary yet approved by business men, economists, and statesmen. And it is set forth in the form of a story so interesting that busy men-men who have time to read but few books-have read the book thorugh at one sitting...
...Jungle Peace is in some respects his best book-a collection of essays most of which appeared originally in The Atlantic Monthly; but Edge of the Jungle was not far behind in beauty and appeal. Galápagos is his most elaborate published book, with the exception of the pheasant monograph...