Arnhem Lift: The Diary of a Glider Pilot. (Pilot Press.
5s.)
Shorter Notices
THIS little book is the best description of action by an actual com- batant that this present war has produced. One looks to it in vain for an account of the fight at Arnhem as a whole' the fighting man is too near the battle to be able to understand it. But while there is nothing here for the strategist and but little for the student of tactics,. there is much that will interest the psychologist • and has it not been said that in war the moral is to the physical as tree is to one? The author has set down honestly his experiences during a week's fight- ing and from his account we get a valuable picture of what the war is like to themen actually in it. We can follow his reactions to danger, share with him the realisation of increased skill, and learn something of the discomforts of modern warfare, including "pins and needles" suffered while hiding in a garden rubbish 'clump.. Interesting points include the strict respect paid by the Germans to the Red Cross during the action and the author's impression that the German troops lacked the self-discipline of our men.
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