Soviet Heroes. Edited by Ivor Montagu and Herbert Marshall. (Pil
Press. 2s, 6d.)
Moscow Under Fire is yet another eye-witness account by o 1 Special Correspondent, and does not break away from " The Field. The two publications of the Pilot Press present some short ston- of considerable vitality, and accounts of heroic exploits before th war, from parachute record-breaking to a skiing adventure fri ith Nerschinsk to Moscow. The editors let their Russians tell the own stories, but if they had been out to make propaganda the could hardly have presented anything more effective than th thoughts of the girl parachutist waiting to make her jump betwee Moscow and Tushino. " I was sitting on the edge of the tra door looking down on the rich flowering earth of my coun These are my houses, my fields, my forest, my aeroplane, my stadi How rich I am."
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