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...SECOND WORLD WAR: VOL. V, CLOSING THE RING (749 pp.)-Winston Churchill-Houghton Mifflin...
...about time we try to straighten this upside-down world, recognize our own role, and realize that the Soviet Union is like a page ripped from a history of Attila or Machiavelli and inserted into Vol...
This is the point at which Pulitzer Prizewinner Douglas Southall Freeman (R. E. Lee, Lee's Lieutenants) picks up Vol. Ill of his definitive biography. Like Freeman's first two volumes, it contains more facts about Washington than anyone has ever squeezed between boards before, and more than most readers are likely to digest. Originally planned for six volumes, the work has swollen to eight. Biographer Freeman expects to finish in 1954, ten years after he began...
Keeping his camera at a respectful distance, Freeman has photographed Washington's 16 years of peace in such overwhelming and sometimes indiscriminate detail that Vol. Ill often makes sluggish reading. But when he plunges into the war in Vol. IV, and takes Washington through the winter at Valley Forge, he writes with steam and fire. A bit pedestrian as a portraitist of character, Freeman handles military matters with rousing zest and precision...
...Conduct of Life, by Lewis Mumford. Humanist Mumford weighs modern life, finds it wanting, and prescribes individual rules "for regeneration; Vol. IV of a tetralogy which began with Technics and Civilization (TIME...