Give Us This Day
An impressive and moving book.  --His is no ordinary prisoner-of-war story; better written than most, it contains no tales of swashbuckling defiance. . . . The force of this book is its testimony to the indomitable strength of the human spirit.  --Manchester GuardianIt is one of the most harrowing and debilitating chronicles that I have read. . . . He describes the ordeal brilliantly; he harbors no resentments apparently, and he has emerged from an inferno of bestiality with utter serenity.  --Maxwell Geismar, Saturday ReviewSidney Stewart's composed narrative is one of the most noble documents ever penned by a prisoner of war. The companions he writes about remained men to the end, until at last only one man remained; he survived to write this unforgettable, this magnificent story.  --George Slocombe, New York Herald Tribune [Paris]The plain narrative of this story would by itself have been fascinating, but this book is far more than a story, it is a work of art.  --Andr Siegfried, Academie Francaise