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REVIEW/ ¢ SQUADS WRITE! Edited by John T. Winter. lch New York: Harper & Bros. “Squads Write!” John T. wmumh. one o( the original staff of Stars and Stripes, revives the official and personal news- paper of the American Expeditionary Forces, through selection of its “best In prose, verse and cartoons,” to make & memory-stirring book of about 300 pages. Edited with “not to serious comment,” this body of selections from the files of the short- lived but uniquely successful official paper of the A. E. F. will furnish a reminiscent thrill to a million Yank veterans. Winterich has succeeded in retaining the mote which ran through Stars and Stripes from. beginning to end; humor, broad, without being ribald, satire that always holds a flavor of good sportsmanship, pointed anecdote and factual narrative that are of the trenches fiself. ~The intimate history of the Buck Private is retold. His narrow escape from the label of “Sammy,” the quick annihilation of any suggestion to curtail such rights as letters home, the consiant war for reciprocal salutes —even' the uncsthetic but none the less seri- ous campsign against the cootie legions, Win- gerich admits that scme of the humor was as deft “as a carthorse stepping a minuet,” but it was pericctly in consonance with the Seelings of the doughboy who responded by giving his complete allegiance to Stars and Stripes and by utilizing it as an outlet for whatever was on his chest in addition to his fssue shirt and his two dog tags. . Reprints of cartoons and poetry contain many -hble ftems. In the poetry section is Kil- mer’s “Rouge Bouquet,” Dazey's “Tribute” and the anonymous “Camouflage” so often quoted and recited. Cartoons by Wallgren, Baldridge, Morgan and others include s number reprinted widely from the Army paper. “Squads Write!” relates the story of Stars and Stripes from its nebulous beginnings to the lowering or the flag from Ehrenbreitstein. 5% will be found a totally different and to many wets & most important contribution to the his- tory of the war. ONE LIVES TO TELL THE TALE. By Edmund Gilligan. Illustrated by Richard A. Loederer. . New- York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith. great adventure goes back to war time and to Scuth Africa. From the military prison in Cape Town 300 German sailors plot to escape into the wilds of the great Karroo and to make their way from its surrounding deserts and plains into the north and, maybe, to freedom and home. Such the groundwork of an undertaking that reads more like inven- tion of the reckless sort than as the record of fact which it so indubitably is. ‘The story itself comes as a personal account- ing of Ludwig Ehlers, third officer of the German freighter Java, taken prisoner by a British cruiser in the African seas. At present Boatswain Ludwig Ehlers is commanding offi- ocer of the United States Coast Guard ship bbdily from the Wcrld War. Enemies beset these escaping prisoners from the moment of their break-away. The desert, rivers to be forded farther on where crocodiles appeared to be wziting for them, hostile na- tives all along the way. Necmuunyunonc the men themselves. To sustain and increasing number of those unable to themselves any longer—and seemingly sand other malign influences crowded years spent in reaching North Africa. Own 16 o0z......75¢c 5 Ibs.....$335 TH FOO)! THE VITA 1298 H Si. N.W. Call Columbia 2980 for I¢s Set the Whole Town Talking! READ MIRRORS OF 1932 “A BRILLIANT book— and delectable reading. It is at once cruel and kind, but it is never dull. Mirvors of 1932 will set the American people ogog.”"—Charles Hamsow Towne, $2.50 Illus. All Book Stores. BREWER, WARREN & PUTNAM, N. Y. THE SUNDAY STAR,” WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 20, NV y__IDA_GILBERT MYER./ A Record of the Official Newspaper of the American Expeditionary Forces—Some Adventure and Early Fall Fiction. of the original 300 left to realize that triumph. Here, any one can see, is material for hardy - and exciting adventure that no fiction, no in- vestigation can approach. A true stcry whose every chapter moves forward to surpass its predecessor in dangers, in personal sufferings, in discouragements. An almost unbelievable story. Not in its purpose. Not in its action, Not in its climax. Unbelievable, instead, be- cause, reading here in the easy times of peace, ing of older literature is that of these mythic Yet, despite the clear fact than ancientry is the sign manual of the myth, here we are per- mitted, in this current year of our Lord, to sit in at the bornin’ of a myth, as legitimate as ever slipped from the loins of pagan Greece or Rome. An upsetting reversal of literary tradi- tion and tenet, this. Yet true. John Henry, 1931, 8 g £ § 5 g a > 3 B a B g ¢ it is hard to realize the mere human as capable of enduring so much in his own body, in his own mind and soul. Of the unccnquerable breed, after all—Man! Distinctly worth every reader’s while, Edmund Gilligan’s account of this continental trail through incredible dangers and sufferings. Freed by time from the impact of war itself this tragic journey stands as one of exciting character, of tremendous vitality, of impact upon the reader’s own mind and sympathies, It is not a part of the war, in its effect. 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