The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-25

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ically. And we ponder how this l
military leader can cause such havoc
troops infesting that Balkan count
HEROIC CHETNIKS PLAGUE
frederick Heydenau, Austrian by
birth and fully familiar with the
courage, individuality and self-re-
sourcefulness of these people, has
written a swell novel around the
sporadic and, to the axis, highly
disconcerting guerrilla war the
Chetniks are waging against the
mechanical might of the invader.
Wrath of the Eagles" Dutton:
$3.50 is a spellbinder. A young
American ensign lands from a
Yankee submarine on the coast of
Jugoslavia to deliver much-needed
supplies to Mikhailovitch ragged
army. BY ancestry compatriot of
these fighting men, he joins their
band and follows the great military
leader through several great battles
against the enemy.
You lose sight of the Yank in
marveling at the description of
Mikhailovitch and his men. Pero,
the giant, is as rough and tough
as the mountains through which
these wild bands operate. Gavro
is patriot whose sacrifice for his
motherland will tear at your heart,
even as the traitorous Ustashi tore
out his.
Action is rapid and touching; the
book is sure to wake you up to the
sacrifices these and other revolving
peoples in the oppressed lands of
Europe are making for their own
cause and ours.
SOUTHERN SUPPER
THE beauty, grace and luxury
l. that was the South lay in a
charred, mangled mass after the
Civil War. The gallant soul of the
South remained firm, however, and
as pictured in Alfred Leland Crabb's
Supper at the Maxwell House
(Bobbs-M Merrill: $3.50 the ruins
were rebuilt by laborious toll and
the wounds of war were mended by
patient waiting.
The book portrays Nashville as
it gathered about itself its remains
and rebuilt. Poignant with the sor-
rows, but dotted with the intrinsic
humor of the people, the story at
no time reverts to malice or judy
ment.
You will sympathize with the
Coles, laugh with the Driver in his
shreWd dealings, hate the banker
Mr.. Maynard, and lose yourself in
the dream of a South scented with
magnolias and painted with golden
rod and gray sagebrush.
The language of the book Is
easily read, smoothly flowing and
picturesque. The plot moves at a
steady pace, and while you will not
become over excited by the many
problems that dot the story, you will
want to read the entire piece before
you set it down.
Supper at the Maxwell House
Is the sort of book you will reach
for on summer afternoon when,
armed with a tall, cool drink, you
! hurry towards deep hammock.
: !.
i HUNGRY FOR MURDER
FOR 300 years the House on Sad
! l. die Ridge exacted its toll of one
! death by violence from each Holden
! generation. This is the setting for
; the new Inner Sanctum mystery,
! THE Hungry House, by Lillian
! L,auferty (Simon g. Schuster: $2).
Just after The last Matthews Holden
! announced his intention of selling
I the House he is found hanging from
a beam in the attic.
| Matthews had four brothers and
a sister, his mother and his soft,
seductive widow to mourn his
death. There were also neighboring
! families who had reasons to dislike
! the Holdens or who liked certain
Holdens very much and others not
. so much. The people of the House
are haunted, rather than the house
Itself, and their doings create sus-
pense until the last chapter.
SUB STORIES
MANY thrilling stories about
I'A British submarines in this war
are told in up Periscope," by David
Masters dial: $3.50. The story OF
! the submarine that struck a mine
and got home to tell about it; the
submarine that had Christmas serv-
ives at the bottom of Heligoland
Blight; that of the craft undergoing
depth bomb attacks.
Although the story is primarily
the saga of British pig boats" the
yarns of the Orzel and Wilk, Polish
subs which escaped after Hitler's
attack in the Baltic. and of General
Clark's trip to North Africa in be-
half of the first American land &C.
ton against Germany and Italy, are
Included.
ECHOES OF MRS. MINIVER
THOSE who were charmed BY
l. the English Mrs. Miniver, the
pathos and glory of an ordinary
family weathering extraordinar,
times, will find much the same sor
Of fare in Henrietta Ripperger's III:
Elm Street" (Putnam's: $3.50. Like