The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-05
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your tires and give books.
Here are a few OF the current
top notchers. Any of them will
make a prize Christmas pack
age.
CALDWELL IN RUSSIA
The Germans have discovered
just what the Russians mean
when the sons and daughters Of
the Soviet go "all-out" to stop
the Nazi advance. To Russian,
there is but a single goal-re-
CARELESS of the cost. The invad-
ers must be stopped. And they
have been stopped, at Stain
grad, at Moscow, at Leningrad.
But the cost? Erskine Cald-
we'll gives you an insight into
the price the Russians are pay
ing for their victories in "All
Night Long" (Duell, Sloan and
Pearce: $3.50 story of Soviet
gEerillas.
They were ready when the
Germans came-long before the
Germans came, in fact. The
seemingly peaceful peasants
took up hidden arms and dyna-
mite to blast at German COM
munications. harry Nazi supply
lines.
No price is too high to pay
that Russia may be saved. The
lives of comrades, the safety of
wife. There is work to be
done.
CaldWell's story of the guerilla
and his wife provides a stirring
and dramatic tale, with the con-
viction that it is fact, not fiction.
1t will do you good to read IT..
If Russia can make these Sacri-
fices to defeat our enemy, should
we grumble over rationing and
inconvenience?
COPE IN A SUBMARINE
Submarines rarely make head
lines, but America fleet of I'M
dersea craft is doing more than
its share in winning this war.
1t takes veteran submarine
commander, Comm. Harley ).
Cope, U. S. Navy, to tell you
about the battles under the sea
in an excellent book Serpent OF
the Seas Funk and Wagnalls:
$3.50. But Commander Cope
does not confine his work to the
present war; he traces the de-
velopment of the submarine, its
activities in previous wars, es-
pecially in World War l.
One of the prize yarns is that
of the commander own battle
with an enemy sub when his
tanker, the u. S. S. Salinas, was
torpedoed in convoy to Iceland.
Commander Cope knows his
facts, tells them well, and pays
lust tribute to a branch of serv-
, ice often neglected.
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The biggest battles are not al
ways the most important, writes
Mai. Gen. John F. c. Fuller, OF
the British Army in his analysis
of American campaigns, "Decis-
; i've Battles of the u. S. A" (Har-
per: S4). Some of the smallest
engagements, in point OF casual
ties, have done more to turn the
tide of victory than the blasting
engagements.
While General Fuller devotes
his book to past wars, his ex-
plantations are of prime import
ance to every civilian strategiSt
who follows the war closely.
You'll understand the reasons
for campaigns, the strength and
weakness we may expect, better
after a session with the general.
STRONG IN IOWA
War hit Iowa just as 1t hit
New York and Hollywood and
thousands of other cities of Am
erica. and the people of Iowa
Phil StongS folks-reacted just
as all good Americans.
Stong was never better than
he is in "One Destiny" (Reynal
and Hitchcock: $2.50) as he re-
counts the wartime adventures
of an Iowa family, with their
loves and heartaches, their he:-
oes and their so-courageous
sons.
It's Americana at its best, and
Stongs novel carries an import
ant message for all Americans
who are doing their best, each in
his own way, to speed the VIC
tory.
LONGSTREET IN U. S. A.
The Last Man Comes Home"
(Random House: So is Stephen
Longstreets report on the state
Of the nation. He travelled from
coast to coast, doing the things
most people dream of doing, but
never do. He met people. UNI
derstood them, and from them
he gathers his material
Sometimes the objective OBJ
server. sometimes the cutting sa-
tirist. Longstreet has confidence
in the people, If not always in