13 MAY 1938, Page 20

LITERATURE ON THE BATTLEFIELD

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—In view of your recent review of There's A Devil in the Drum, it may interest you and your readers to hear that descrip- tions of fighting in it are so accurate and detailed that it was found worth while, the other day, to take the book to France and to read extracts of it to a party of Officers on the battlefield of the Aisne !—Yours faithfully, 125 Bishop's Mansions, S.W. 6.

A. H. BURNE, Lt.-Colonel.