Shorter Notices
The Tiger Kills. (H.M. Stationery Office. 2s.) LT.-COL. W. G. HINGSTON, who wrote The Tiger Strikes, and Lt.-Col. G. R. Steevens, are jointly responsible for this book which • is published for the Government of India. It is a model of its kind and much superior to the recent accounts of the African fighting issued by the Stationery Office. It deals with the part played in the North African campaign by British and Indian troops forming the Indian divisions of the Eighth Army. The author's aim throughout has been to give a picture of combat rather than a military history, and so we are told about the men rather than their commanders, and given stories of action rather than details of operational plans. It is difficult to pick out high lights in a book of such uniform excellence, but perhaps the best passages in it are the accounts of the break-out from Benghazi in January, 1942, and the story of the capture of Fatnassa in the battle of the Wadi Akarit in April, 1943. The book is also valuable as an introduction to the Indian Army, about which even the British people, are ignorant. It is especially to be hoped that arrangements have been made to make this book available in the United States, where Mr. Phillips for one would find something to interest him in this worthy tribute to the world's greatest volumeer army.
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