The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-05

llJ EeiSaSCS, lue war bGtWeCu ttlG more than mere recounting of facts. Of equal importance to the reader, if not to history, are the sioelights and personality stories which keep Sandburg's s story bright and always interest," ing.
 SOUTH'S LEADERS
 THE south needs no better Spokes-
 | man than Douglas Southall Free man, who follows his superb R. E. Lee" with the first of trilogy trac- ing the battles and men of the south. Lees LieutenantS" (Scrih- ners: $5) is multiple biography of southern military leaders,
 Wars are won by victorious battles, and generals win battles. Freeman's biographies should re- mind us that In today's struggle we have no place for jealousies hickering, or antagcnisms. We need Lees and Jacksons today, not Johnstons and Beauregar6s,
 COPPERHEADS
 l INSA eAA SAAN CAsNAAltSo VI kAlC OAAOAA " were in the south. Many were active far in the north. They were spies and Saboteurs. They were appeaSers and southern sympa- thizers, George Fort Milton re- vealS many previously overlooked facts in Abraham Lincoln and the Fifth Column" Vanguard; $350)
 Wood Gray tells the story of the Copperheads in '"rhe Hidden Civil War" tViking: $375). Both of these volumes are recommended AROUND THE WORLD
 A CTIoN is the keynote of World
 A War II and there is all the ex- citement any reader could ask in the report of newsmen covering the world battlefronts.
 Freely to Pass (Crowell: $S) is the wartime Odyssey Of able United Press correspondent Ed ward W. Beattie, Jr. Written in the crisp, readable style that has marked Beattie's reports from the war arenas, the book is a kaleido- scopic picture of the war from the days of tension, preceding actual outbreak, through the Battle of Britain.
 Beattie went where the war went. from nation to nation with blitzkrieg speed. He saw the ruth less bomtings, the swift, merciless onslaught of panzer divisions, the futile stands of heroic people. who faced the inevitable war without fear, and who fight on today, al- though their homelands lie under the conqueror's heel.
 Freely to Pass is a moving tribute to all those people who nave never ceased to fight Hitler ism. no matter what the odds against them might be.
 THE QUEEN GOES DOWN
 CTANLEY JOHNSTON was the O only newspaperman aboard the Lexington during the battle of the Coral Sea, the last victory of a great ship. Johnston's first re- ports were carried by the press associations but he now tells the complete story in Queen of the Flat Tops" .(Dutton: $300). Here is book to make every American stand up and cheer, for every page is proof of the heroism of the men upon whom America depends to win the war.
 Johnston knew the men who flew the Lady Lex's planes, the men who manned her. He lived with them and watched some of them die-heroes al. You'll meet them now and for the first time you may fully realize just how much these young Americans are sacrificing for you.
 Johnstotn's word picture of the l6-minute battle that doomed the Queen is an epic of action and description. Equally thrilling is the report of the battle to save the Lex after the Jap attack. while fire deep within her burned out her cables, destroyed her con- trols, left her helpless. And the men of the Lex. worn out by one battle. fought on for hours until the final order to abandon ship was given.
 John Paul Jones gave the Navy a tradition. The men of the Lex ington lived up to it.
 BRITISH BATTLE
 CECIL BROWN flashed the world | M the news of the first major victory | of planes over warships. when the l Prince of Wales and the Repulse 1 went down. But Browns report | "Suez to Singapore" (Randoni | House: S350) covers far greater field. extending from the Egypt front to Australia. Some of the pug zles of the early days of the war are | cleared up by this excellent report.
 HAWAIIAN CAFES SACRED
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