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INTO THE VALLEY-John Hersey-Knopf...
...Marines who kept trickling home from Guadalcanal last week found three books about themselves in the stalls. Richard Tregaskis' Guadalcanal Diary (TiME, Jan. 25) and Ira Wolfert's Battle for the Solomons tell of whole campaigns. John Hersey's unpretentious little book tells of just three days-three days when, as a TIME correspondent, tall, 28-year-old Hersey went along on a skirmish with the men of Marine Captain Charles Rigaud...
...Hersey was curious to know what these tired, hungry, hard-worked Marines thought about war. "They did not want that valley or any part of its jungle" and yet they willingly went down into it. So he asked what they were fighting for. "They did not answer for what seemed a very long time. Then one of them spoke . . . and for a second I thought he was changing the subject or making fun of me, but ... he was answering my question very specifically. He whispered: 'Jesus, what I'd give for a piece of blueberry pie.' . . . Here...
GUADA-John Hersey, who spent all summer with Admiral Halsey's naval task forces and with the Marines on Guadalcanal...
...from our own correspondents, or from our Associated Press service, or from the newspapers-to scan reliable information from every source. But no group of editors tries harder to keep close to the scene of action-military, political or other-in the U.S. or abroad. And the four months Hersey spent away from his desk are just a case in point...