Bradley beam., 1945-06-09
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Joe PRIVATE SAYS

Since you can't all read Cor ever Amber" at the same time, we are listing a few OTHER books well-worth the reading. Amorg the fifty outstanding books of 1914, recently compiled by the American Library association are the follow ing, all available at your Base Library.
 A WALK IN THE SUN
 Private Harry Brown is going to walk back to civilian life on his 85 points to find that he has written what looks like THE novel of World War II, The whole book is beautifully composed, natural, deep. ly moving, and witty. It tells of an American platoon, landing on the beach in Italy, and losing, in fairly quick succession, it's lieu tenant and three sergeants. A cor poral takes over and leads the men toward vaguely sensed ob- jective-a farmhouse six miles in- land. A little like Thurber, little like Hemingway, it makes vivid novel! ::* .. F.: r. GREEN YEARS
 For you who enjoyed the movies, Keys to the Kingdom and the Citadel, you will find Cronin's latest novel Green Years" to your liking. This time he tells the story of a boy, Robert Shannon, from his eighth year to his eighteenth. Orphaned by the loss of both parents in a few short months, Robert travels from his home in Ireland to his grandparents in Scot land where he finds only one person to give him the love he needs, his great grandfather, something of sinner but the boys true friend.
 FREEDOM ROAD
 This book, by Howard Fast, has had nothing but praise from Base Library readers. Though the set ting is post Civil War, the problem it deals with is here and now. It is an historical novel based on the reconstruction period in the South following the Civil war, when for few years Negroes and whites worked together in harmony. Gid con Jackson, the Negro leader who rose from illiteracy to be mem Der of Congress, is the central character. The rise of Gideon, his efforts to help his people, the little settlement over which he presided is pictured. A magnificent novel, important and provocative.
 GOOD NIGHT, SWEET PRINCE
 Gene Fowler, a newspaperman whose friendship with John Barry more dated from 1918, has given us detailed biography of that celebrated actor. It contains most entertaining collection of funny theatrical anecdotes, g gorg eous yarns of the actors more lurid binges, plus considerable material on the actors family background. The whole is highly recommended for the general reader as well as the theatrically inclined.
 BELL FOR ADANO
 This novel will soon appear in movie form at your local theater. John Hersey, it's author, has given us a true picture of Adano, a Sicilian village presided over by the A.M.G. officer, Major Victor Joppolo, LISA. An Italian-Ameri- can with love of justice, his big gest problem, after gaining the re- spect and love of the natives, is to find a bell for the town, to replace the 7O0-year-old town bell melted down for bullets by the Fascists. Even, Hollywood will find the lan- guage in this book too scorching for the celluloid to handle!
 BRAVE MEN
 The last book by brave man, Ernie Pyle. This one is based on the authors dispatches from the American fronts in Sicily and France, beginning with the landing in Sicily in June. 1943, and con-