15 APRIL 1960, page 25

Getting Off The Beach

The Longest Day. By Cornelius Ryan. (Gol- lancz, 21s.) AFTER the great weight of put-downable books by Generals on how they won the war, here is an un-put-downable one about......

True Tradesmen •

WHEN I was young and foolish I went to Blooms- bury to consult the oracle about some book trade article I was working on. With briskness and courtesy Sir Stanley Unwin put me......

The Affair.. By C. P. Snow. (macmillan, 18s.)

The A flair seems to me to be C. P. Snow's best novel since The Masters; indeed, in a number of ways it compares quite favourably with the earlier book. Its success is not due......