Bradley beam., 1944-04-29
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May 1-6 has been designated as Russia Book Week and all over the country libraries will feature books which will open the door to wider knowledge of Russia and it's people, It is therefore fitting that today's column be devoted to books on Rus sia, books which will help you to an understanding of that powerful ally whose history and customs are so entirely different from cur own. F How and why the U.S.S.R. came to it's present stature is the theme of a hot-off- -the-press book, USSR, by Walter Duranty, the one man best qualified to tell tht story. Be. ginning with the causes, meaning and aims of the Soviet Revolution, MT. Duranty unfolds Russia's heroic development down to the present moment. Twenty-six years of drama without parallel in his tory are given their proper setting in the light of concrete facts.
 At the outbreak of the present war, the Russian Army, soon to prove itself one of the greatest military forces in history, was largely unknown. Recently several attempts have been made to ex- plain and interpret it, historically, socially and politically. In UN- KNOWN ARMY, by Nikolaus Bas- seches, no statistics are employed, nor does the author take sides po- litically. He treats his subject ob- actively, not only as tremendous military power but as a great so- cial and political power as well.
 Few Americans reading the headlines announcing Russia's vic- tories realize that her stand against the Germans is not an isolated phe- nomenon in her history. There was a day in 1760 when Russian troops marched into Berlin itself! RUS SIAN CAVALCADE by Albert Parry is the saga of the Russian Army, the men who built it, the marshals who lead it, and the sol- diers who fight in it.
 What is the secret of the Rus sian success? Read RUSSIANS DON'T SURRENDER, by Alexan- der Poliakov and find out! The reader cannot fail to be inspired by this simple war diary which en- enates such burning passion to van- quish Fascism.
 Maurice Hindus has for years known Russia and it's people at first hand, and he is therefore we'll qualified to recognize and to inter pret the changes, material and spiritual, that have been caused by the war. MOTHER RUSSIA, his latest book, is an important con- tribution to our knowledge of the Russian people.
 Joseph E. Davies was appointed American Ambassador to the U. S. s. R. on 16 November, 1886, and left for his post shortly thereafter He arrived to find the treason trial of Karl Radek approaching its climax and remained in Moscow un- til the eve of the Czechoslovak cri- sis. His book, MISSION TO MOS- COW, is made up entirely of con- fidential dispatches to the State Department, selections from his diary and correspondence, both off, ficial and personal. It is a story of history in the making, written by one of the men who helped to make it.
 MOSCOW DATELINE, by H. c. Cassidy, is another excellent back ground book. In it the man for whom Stalin stated his views on the second front gives his own in- innate, up-to-the-last-minute view of Russia's government, her people and her war.
 Perhaps there will be a postwar opportunity for you in Russia! This is an excellent opportunity for you
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