The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-28

the country and large part of the
 All this is based upon a read ing of How War Came" (Simon and Schuster: $2.50), Forrest Davis and Ernest K. Lindley's in- side report on U. s. International relations from the fall of France to the attack on Pearl Harbor. You will close this important book with greater confidence in the men who guide our destiny, and a calm assurance that when the world is remade the American planners will get extraordinary attention.
 Pearl Harbor shocked all na- tions, but Cordell Hull had warned it was coming Sumner Wells picked the date of the Nazi at- tack on Russia. Admiral Leahy was a power in France. Roose- welt and Churchill are not being fooled.
 How War Came" is important as 8 factual document, but its greater value to the average reader is in the confidence it inspires.
 PRE-WAR ENGLAND
 THE WHITE QUEEN" by Betty
 A Baur (Viking: $2.5O) is the story of Deborah Abbott, who mar ried the past and fell in love with the future. Faced with burial in tradition steeped English country life, the American heroine of this story revolts against the ostrich like and intellectual thinking of pre- war England Married to one man, and in love with another, Deborah makes a violent break with the past that is not only unexpected but quite unconventional.
 The main value of Miss Baur's novel is not in its story, however. It is in it's excellent portrait of English country life and its picture of England before the present war. WRIGHT IS BACK
 HAROLD BELL WRIGHT proves AAthat a 10-year rest from writing novels has not robbed him of his skill. '"The Man Who Went Away" (Harper: $2) will delight all Wright fans and other readers who may not be so well acquainted with "The Shepherd of the Hills" and 'The Winning of Barbara Worth"
 All of the old masters touch is contained in this story of a man who returned to his California forest to find the wife and child he had deserted. He finds adven- ture, too, with man of the forest, a blind girl and gang of snug glers.
 ENGLAND'S QUEEN
 W7ITH Elizabeth, Creature of Cir
 w cumstance" (Harper: $2.75), Hillaire Belloc adds another to his already notable series of biographies.
 The reader who expects to have this book add materially to his store of knowledge regarding Britain's mystery queen may well be disappointed, but it will add materially to his understanding of the mighty forces which were at work to make Elizabeth what she was.
 Paramount among these forces was the loot of the abbey lands, the rich prizes taken from the Catholic church and distributed among what became England's new ruling class. And 1t was the acquisition of the sudden wealth by these lands which made the recipients the ruling class.
 Belloc makes a strong case for his contention that it |. was this economic consideration, rather than any real religious revolt, which made the Reformation pos sible and that it was this same consideration which, to a large de- gree, shaped Elizabeths destiny. BECAUSE this has not been D newspaperman's war, corre- spondents having had few oppor- tunities to see the various fronts in action. Russel Hills Desert War" (Allfred A. Knopf: $275), is of spe- cial interest.
 Hill, New York Herald Tribune correspondent, knows modern desert warfare for he actually was with the fighting forces on that unusual ly fluid front which took in much of the Libyan wastes.
 The book tells the story of the Libyan campaigns without dra- matics and clears up many ques- tions which laymen have asked regarding the rapid changes in United Nations fortunes in this area.
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