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Std1 are cOnClHudiIy DelHgs dSkeu "What does the soldier READ ?"- as if his reading interests were suddenly transformed at the very moment he donned his khaki. So let's turn the tables in this weeks column and ask what the civilian reads by viewing the book world through the eyes of the book crit ics Of three leading magazines.
 E.~A. Filler, reviewer for Lib erty Magazine. urges his readers not to miss TEN ESCAPE FROM TOJO, the story of Commander Mccoy and Lt. Col. Mellnik, as they recounted it to It. w. Kelley. Says he, "It is the authentic ac-> count of two men who witnessed the Japanese cruelty inflicted upon the prisoners taken, on Bataan and Corregidor, who somehow hoarded both enough strength and crude equipment to escape. An exciting, enraging book" Another book rec commended in the same column is CRAZY WEATHER, by Charles L. McNichols. The locale for this nov el is the Colorado River Valley, and the hero, the white son of ranch owner who has grown up with the Indians, learned their lore and their language so well that he him. self has to separate his Indian thinking and his white-man think ing at times. MT. Filler says "The story itself has some of the quail ities of such great boy adventures as Mark Twain's. And into it MT. McNichols adroitly woven h. dian legend, customs, and man ners." One more recommendation from Liberty columns is Robert Sherrod's TARAWA, "so good, so graphic, that any reader who wish es can witness the battle for him. self"
 Esquire's book department is headed by Bennett Cerf, we'll known book critic. Its reviews car ry the same pep and vim of other Esquire articles. "Hot news in the war book industry" says MT. Cerf, lis that new one by Quentin Reynolds has hit the stands. A lot of people have tired Of the ave rage, run-of- -the-kill battle diaries, but Quent's is something else again. This towering (six foot something) burly (22O) hunk of all-around good guy has a way of making you feel you're sharing every one of his adventures. THE CURTAIN RISES is the story of his discovery of what American boys can do in action" Talk of the town with Esquire readers is "THE LOST WEEKEND" by Charles Jackson. Says MT. Cerf, "The book is the story of five-day blnge, and when I put it down I was a bottle-scarred veteran, ready for the W.C.T.U." If you yearn for tales of Texas, MT. Cerf says George Sessions Perry's HACK BERRY CAVALIER is just what the doctor ordered. It is an engag- ing series of yarns about the Texas land and its people, both of which grow better with time. If you don't believe me, ask any Texan!"
 Redbook Magazine entrusts it's book reviews to Harry Hansen, who, in the May issue of the maga- zine, recommends that his public read WHILE STILL WE LIVE, by Helen Machines. Its tense situa- tions are provided by Poland's patriots, engaged in the most dan- gerous underground activities against the Nazi overlords. The TO- nance is provided by charming English girl who risks her life to help. In brief review of John Gunther's D DAY: WHAT PRE- CEDED TT; WHAT FOLLOWED. Mir. Hansen recommends that book for people who enjoy new way of telling the big story of a cor respondents personal account of what he saw on the big jump from Africa to Sicily.
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