The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-11-13
Battle Between the States
And World War No. 2 Are
Keeping Book Writers Busy

Keeping Book
Todsy's typewriter strategis,s
are tomorrow's historians. To-
days books are faeniai reports
Of heroes and battles: tomorrows
analyses win probe into the char
acter OF leaders. the causes of VIC
tory or defeat Both types are
presented In current releases. The
War Between the States stIn pro
vIdes unlimited material for popu-
lar history. and the current con-
fliet Is yielding It's share q bril-
liant exciting news
You may Be surprised 10 know
that the recent releases On the
Civil War are far from out-of-
date. Rather. they are Of unusual
current interest The leaders Of
today's armies face the same cru
chile OF criticism the generals OF
1850 have suffered: the spies and
fifth columnists win be marked
men in history just as they were
in Lincoln's day.
ALI-AMERIcAN
Before you study Lees gen.
erals. or the 'fsolationistsa and
spies Of 80. you'll need a good.
short history Of the conflict it.
self. Carl sandburg supplies the
need perfectly in storm over the
Land" (Harcourt Broce: $350). a
profile OF the Civil War. taken
largely from Sandburg's "Abra-
ham Lincoln: The War Years"
Sandburg towers above other
chroniclers Of the Unions cause
His Abraham Lincoln" Is a six
volume masterpiece Of history, BIZ
ography and writing. II you
haven't read Sandburg's Lincoln.
storm Over the Land" will show
you. in part what you've missed.
The south needs no better
Freeman. who follows his superb
spokesman than Douglas Southall
"R. f. Lee" with the first Of
trilogy tracing the battles and
men Of the south. Lees Lieu
tenants" (Scribners: So is a null
tiple biography of southern mill
tary leaders.
Wars are won by victorious
battles, and generals win battles.
Freemans biographies should re-
mind us that in today's struggle
we have no place for jealousies,
pickering. or antagonism. We
need Lees and Jacksons today. not
Johnstons and Beauregards.
COPPERHEADs
Not all the enemies of the Union
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:
$3.50.
Wood Gray tells the story of the
Copperheads in THE Hidden Civil
War (viking:: 1879. Both
of these volumes are recon-
mended.
AROUND THE WORLD
Action is the keynote of World
War II and there is all the ex-
element any reader could ask in
the report of newsmen covering
the world battlefronts.
Freely to Pass" (Crowell:: $50
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
ruthless bombings, the swift, mer-
CHESS onslaught of panzer divi-
sions, the futile stands of heroic
people. who faced the inevitable
war without fear, and who fight
on today, although their home
lands lie under the conqueror's
heel.
Freely to Pass" is a moving
tribute to all those people who
have never ceased to fight Hitler
ism. mo matter what the odds
against them might be.
THE QUEEN GOES DOWN
Stanley Johnston was the only
newspaperman aboard the Lexing-
ton during the battle Of the Coral
Sea, the last victory Of a great
ship. Johnston's first reports
were carried by the press associa-
tons but he now tells the COM
plete story in Queen Of the Flat
killed. captured or missing.