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the character OF leaders, tIlc
causes of victory or defeat. Both
types are presented in current
releases. The War Between the
States still provides unlimited
material for popular history,
and the current conflict is
yielding its share of brilliant,
exciting news.
You may be surprised to
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the Civil War are far from out
of-date.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 todays armies face
the same crucible of criticism
the generals of 1860 have suf-
fered; the spies and fifth col
umnists will be marked men in
history just as they were in Lin
coins day.
ALL-AMERICAN
Before you study Lees gen.
erals, or the "isolationists" and
spies of so, you'll need good,
short history of the conflict it
self. Carl Sandburg supplies
the need perfectly in Storm
Over the Land" (Harcourt
Brace: $3.50, a profile of the
Civil War, taken largely from
Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln:
The War Years"
Sandburg towers above other
chroniclers Of the Union S
cause. His abraham Lincoln"
is a six-volume masterpiece Ut
history, biography and writing.
If you haven't read Sandburg' S
Lincoln, Storm Over the
Land" will show you, in part,
what you've missed.
Storm Over the Land" offers
more than mere recounting of
facts. OF equal Importance 10
the reader, if not to history, are
the sidelights and personality
stories which keep Sandburg' S
story bright and always inter-
esting.
SOUTH'S LEADERS
The south needs no better
spokesman than Douglas South
all Freeman, who follows his
superb "R. E. Lee" with the
first of a trilogy tracing the
battles and men of the south.
Lees Lieutenants" (Scribners:
: So is a multiple biography OF
southern military leaders.
Wars are won by victorious
battles, and generals win bat
ties. Freeman's biographies
should remind us that in today
struggle we have no place for
jealousies, pickering, or antag-
onisms. 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 south
ern sympathizers. George Fort
Milton reveals many previously
overlooked facts in Abraham
Lincoln and the Fifth Column
(Vanguard: $500.
Wood Gray tells the story OF
the Copperheads in 1.-THE Hid
den Civil War" Viking: S3.75,
Both of these volumes are re-
commended.
AROUND THE WORLD
Action is the keynote OF
World War II and there is all
the excitement any reader
could ask in the report Of news
men covering the world battle
} fronts.
Freely to Pass" (Crowell:
So is the wartime Odyssey Of
able United Press correspondent
Edward w. Beattie, Jr. Written
in the crisp, readable style that
has marked Beattie's reports
from the war arenas, the book
is a Kaleidoscope 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,
merciless onslaught of panzer
divisions, the futile stands of
heroic people, who faced the in
evitable war without fear, and
who fight on today, although
their homelands lie under the
conqueror's heel.
Freely to Pass is a moving
tribute to all those people who
have never ceased to fight Hit
lerism, no matter what the odds
against them might be.
THE QUEEN GOES DOWN
Stanley Johnston was the
only newspaperman aboard the
Lexington during the battle OF
the Coral Sea, the last victory Of
great ship. Johnston's first
reports were carried by the
press associations but he now
tells the complete story m
Queen of the Flat-Tops' (Dut-
ton: So. Here is a book to
make every American stand up
and cheer, for every page is
proof of the heroism of the men
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