The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-11
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For an emOtlOndl ana pdlI lOtlC
heart-thumping, plus unvarnish-
ed information, read Men on
Bataan" (Knopf: $3.50, by John
Hersey, and The Commands"
(Duell, Sloan & Pearce: $3.50,
a novel by Elliott Arnold.
Hersey skillfuliy alternates
chapters on the fife of General
Macarthur with others on our
second Alamo, basing his battle
chapters on official sources and
many unpublished press dis
patches. Hersey's Macarthur is
more of a man-but what
man-with faults and virtues
found in any American live
wire.
Excellent accounts of Colin
Kelly, Meyer Levin, Ralph d.
Brown, John d. Buckley, Mrs.
Macarthur, Enrico Martinez
and other heroes flame through
this book, but the heroes to nom
and dad, plain privateS, sailors,
marines, nurses and Filipino
Scouts get one of the finest tri-
butes ever paid fighting men
and women.
Few adventure tales will as
sault and capture the magma
ton so completely as The Com
mandos," a fast-stepping story of
the grimy-faced battlers who
make Mad Adolf madden, and
prepare the way for a second
European front.
There is a love interest, but it
is largely BACKED out by fact
ual accounts Of Commando
training and attacks. One of
their neat tricks when approach
ing a Nazi sentry at night is TO
hoist the hand with the Hitler
salute and continue the salute
by gouging the enemy's mouth,
nose and eyes until he can't see.
George Washington's cash
book contains an item of $84
paid to DR.. Samuel Bard for re-
moving a carbuncle. Washing
tons life was saved, and j. Brett
LangStaff has written an out
standing biography of the man
of medicine, DIR. Bard of Hyde
Park" (Dutton: $3.50. This
lively account Of the most i'm
portant physician in early New
York relates how he founded
the first medical school, lived
through the turbulent Revolu-
tionary days and attended the
ailments to such prominent per-
sons as Franklin, Robert Living
Ston, General Gates, Hamilton,
Burr and others.
HOPE FOR ITALY
Americans give the Japs and
Nazis a verbal kick in the
pants as many times a day as
possible, but there are few at
tacks against Italy or the Ital-
ians, except for the field days
enjoyed by cartooniSts and joke
sterS at the expense of aging
Mussolini A good explanation
may DE found in The Real
Italians" Columbia University
Press: So, by Count Carlo
Sforza, minister of foreign af-
fairs for Italy before Benito's
daring march on Rome in the
safety of an armored train.
This valuable book reviews
the cultural, economic and pol
itical contributions Of Italy
and they have been great
and shows that "the history of
Italy proves that the true social
order under which its people
progress and prosper has moth
ing in common with the Fas-
cists."
AS Mazzini and Cavour were
the first great spokesman for a
united Europe, so Sforza be-
lieves his homeland will be in
the lead again for a stable
peace after IL Duce's jutting jaw
is shut forever.
Having gas, tire and car
trouble these days? Read Your
Car Is Made TO Last putnam:
$3.50 by Herman Bishop and
Bergen Evans. They explain
why your bus is good for many
more miles and how to get those
miles-if you can get the tires
and gas.
ESCAPE FROM DEATH
When the great crimes OF the
Nazis glare from the histories
for future generations, few of
Hitlers fclonies will be more
revolving than what his master
men did TO helpless civilians.
One of the better accounts of
this folorn group is Flight to
Freedom DUEL, Sloane az