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MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S war memoirs, the serial rights of which were recently the subject of a comment by Janus, will be published in book form by Cassell, who announce the first volume as appearing early in 1948. It will deal with the deterioration of the long " armistice " of 1919-39, Munich, the outbreak of war and the early phases when for the second time Mr. Churchill became First Lord of the Admiralty; and it will end at the time when he replaced Neville Chamberlain as Premier. The intention is for each volume, complete in itself and dealing with a complete phase, to bear its own individual tide.
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Two books which, by coincidence, appear almost together and deal with very similar periods of the war are The Victory Campaign (Faber) and Britain at War : the Army V (Hutchinson). Both are by well-known war correspondents, the former by Strategicus, the latter by Major E. W. Sheppard. The Victory Campaign opens on May II, 1944, with the allied campaign in Italy, and ends with the Japanese surrender. In a chapter on the Fiihrerprinzip the author discusses some of the main lessons of the war. Major Sheppard, also dealing with events in Europe and the Far• East, takes up the story a little later—in October, 1944—but he too writes of the remaining campaigns which ended with the final surrender in September, 1945.
The study of records, the comparison of individual averages, the compiling of figures for the sake of figures appears to be an enshrined pastime with the majority of those who follow the game of cricket. Quite a number of publications already exist with no purpose other than to cater for this statistical thirst. But there is probably room for others, and on June 16th Arnold publish Test Cricket Cavalcade, 1877-1946 by E. L. Roberts. This book, it appears, will offer the cricketer every figure and every record in connection with every test match wherever it has been played between the dates
specified, often with the detailed scores. * * * *
Letters to Malaya V, the third and concluding volume in a series of letters in verse, addressed by the author, Martyn Skinner, to a friend overseas, describes the coming of peace as seen by a poet who fears the ravages of commercialised civilisation on the English tradition. The previous volume, covering the early war years, won the 1944 Hawthornden Prize. Eustace and Hilary is the third novel in L. P. Hartley's trilogy which opened with The Shrimp and the Anemone and was continued by The Sixth Heaven. Putnam are
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What is claimed to be the first book exclusively devoted to the mediaeval chantry movement is being published by Phoenix House this month. Its author, Mr. G. H. Cook, at present lecturer in archi- tecture at the City Literary Institute, not only describes in general terms the growth and decline of this chapter in English Church and social history, but he also records every known chantry chapel in England. The title of the book is Mediaeval Chantries and Chantry
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