10 NOVEMBER 1944, page 20

Letter From New Guinea. By Vern Haugland. (hammond. 6s.,

Tins is a true adventure story in the form of the author's lett to his publisher, because although he is a journalist this se' declared literary naïf could not trust himself to......

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Third Class to Dunkirk. By Peter Hadley. (Hollis and Carter. 7s. U.) MR. HADLEY was a subaltern in what, from internal evidence, seems to have been a Territorial battalion of an......

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BEST sellers are notoriously tricky things to spot in advance. Publishers' readers have been known to turn them down and to have spent the rest of their lives regretting it ;......