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Last week the only authoritative, firsthand report on Chinese Turkestan reached the U.S. That report came from TIME'S Chungking correspondent, Theodore White, who with LIFE Photographer William Vandivert has just completed a two-month tour of the hitherto forbidden area. Correspondent White brought back fresh and important news...
Duncan Norton-Taylor traveled 10,000 miles and waited three months in the South Seas for his chance to go into action with our fleet-but his firsthand story of the naval victories in the Kula Gulf was well worth waiting...
Twelve days after the landings, no connected, firsthand account of all the battles in the British, U.S. and Canadian sectors had reached the U.S. Like the soldiers, the front-line correspondents saw only the shapes of their particular hells. Of the accounts which did arrive, the clearest told of the crisis in an American sector, near the juncture of the Sele and Galore Rivers, where Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's forces almost pushed...
From TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod came this firsthand report...
...escape of Casanova from the Leads, or Peter Kropotkin from the fortress of Peter & Paul. This book is the detailed description of Hélion's two-year imprisonment and flight (TIME, Nov. 23). As a breath-taking narrative of captivity and escape and as a unique firsthand description of the miseries of life among Germany's French prisoners, They Shall Not Have Me is one of the half-dozen most remarkable books of World...