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...MEMOIR OF THE BOBOTES (154 pp.)-Joyce Gary-University of Texas Press...
...Memoir of the Bobotes* was found among Gary's papers after he died in 1957. It is an unfinished and unpretentious book, but rich with observed truth about war and men, totally unconcerned with calculated effects. It reads, in fact, like the author's reminder to himself that he was there...
...Edge of Day, by Laurie Lee. The British poet states the common truths of boyhood uncommonly well in this pleasant, unsentimental memoir...
Commandant of Auschwitz, by Rudolf Hoess. That the worst criminal can be self-pitying is proved in this grim memoir by the SS captain, since executed, who gassed 2,000,000 Jews at Auschwitz...
...Minerva, by Gustav Regler. The author, an ex-Communist, writes an absorbing memoir of his misadventures as a revolutionary, and in the process throws much light on 20th century history...