Shorter Notices
One Continent Redeemed. By Guy Ramsey. (Harrap. 8s. 6d.) Tins is the sort of book that journalists ought to write—and seldom do. It is an exciting account of the author's experie in North Africa, written without a trace of that smug superiod which distinguishes so many members of his profession. The is a negative, but very real, virtue in a book which is not constand telling us what General Eisenhower ought to have done in situation or what the War Cabinet ought not to have done in th But there are positive virtues about the book as well. It is Ia in substance and in language, and gives a vivid picture of th aspects of the North African campaign with which the au actually came in contact. Most valuable is the light which Ramsey throws on the elusive personality of General Eisenhow and the account of his exclusive interview with General Girau Of great interest are his accounts of life with allied airmen and conditions and opinions in Oran and Algiers. He saw hardly an thing of the land fighting, and the book cries out for a compani from one --of his colleagues who did.
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