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...BLAST OF WAR 1939-1945 by Harold Macmillan. 623 pages. Harper...
History has already dimmed the never sharply defined figure of Harold Macmillan. He had the misfortune to become Prime Minister in time to help preside, in Churchill's phrase, "over the liquidation of the British Empire." Often photographed in hairy tweed knickerbockers while shooting in the Scotch Highlands, Macmillan projected an image of woebegone Toryism anachronistic in the postwar scene of swinging Britain. That this image was misleading could be seen from the first volume of his memoirs (TIME, Sept. 30, 1966) in which he emerged as a humorous and generous-minded man, sharply aware of the currents...
...Bomb at the Club. Macmillan's tone is just right-involved yet detached, never querulous but capable of showing marked distaste, even derision, for some of the bad actors in the great drama of this century. He is never grandiloquent, and for this reason the reader is likely to trust him more than Winston Churchill, whose rhetorical afflatus invites suspicion that the great man perhaps tended to force history into his own dramatic cast of mind. It was, however, as Churchill's man, his emissary (his "dogsbody" as the English say, or his gillie, as a Scottish laird...
...LIKELY PLACE, by Paula Fox (Macmillan; $2.95). Lewis, at nine, is so overwhelmed by parental advice that he thinks of running away. But then he meets Mr. Madruga, a retired Spanish shoemaker, and together they solve their problems. Also recommended: Paula Fox's How Many Miles to Babylon?, the story of a Negro boy in Brooklyn who is held captive by young dog thieves...
...drummer for Glenn Miller, a writer and editor for the old Metronome magazine, and a producer for records, radio and TV. Now, drawing heavily on his Metronome files, he has packed all he knows about the peak of swing (1935-46) into an encyclopedic volume, The Big Bands (Macmillan; $9.95). Like the zealots of whom and to whom it speaks, the book is cheerfully biased, sometimes repetitive, often superficial-and just as often stirringly evocative of the fervid period when so many groups (Simon mentions some 450) "swung freely and joyously," filling listeners with "an exhilarated sense of friendly well...