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...autobiographical first novel of a Russian ex-revolutionist and army officer who escaped to the U. S. in 1924, They That Take the Sword is a simply-told, convincing, first-person marathon (717 pages). It traces the career of an idealistic, dynamic, personable young Siberian peasant who ran away at 16 to become a "Russian Lincoln." He became leader of a terrorist group, was exiled to Siberia, rose to a captaincy during the War, commanded both Red and White troops in the civil war, narrowly escaped "liquidation" when he grew disgusted with both sides...
RENO RENDEZVOUS - Leslie Ford - Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Two daring and brutal murders are cleared up by Colonel Primrose and misogynist Sergeant Buck. Another of Miss Ford's first-person stories, with her usual good plot and dialogue...
...Your Wings, in simple, first-person, instructor-to-student dialogue, Jordanoff told how to fly, prudently prefacing the course with lectures on the history of flying, aerodynamics and how to use a parachute. Through 27 chapters he guided the student off the ground, through rudimentary flight, and back to earth again; told him about motors, propellers, wing lift, etc. ; took off with him again for turns, climbs, glides, later for stalls and spins and aerobatics; sent him soloing; proceeding thence through discussions of "avigation," instruments, fuels, radio, accessories...
...newsmen in Hankow, accustomed to second-hand stories of conditions in Japanese-occupied areas of China, listened last week to a first-person account by tall, bristly-haired, up-&-coming 42-year-old Captain Evans Fordyce Carlson of the U. S. Marine Corps. Having served five years as attaché to the U. S. Embassy at Peking, Captain Carlson returned to Hankow after three and a half months' "tour" as a military observer of the "conquered" provinces of Shansi, Hopei, Shantung and Suiyuan, where he traveled with organized Chinese guerrilla bands, including detachments of the Communist-trained Eighth Route...
WINGED PHARAOH-Joan Grant-Harper ($2.50). Poetic first-person narrative about a co-ruler and priestess during Egypt's First Dynasty, described as a Golden Age of justice and the arts, in which the instructions in the Book of the Dead are carried out as casually as cooking recipes...