28 MARCH 1958, page 32

Life's A Gamble

o ODHAMS • Spring Selection For the first time, the whole inside story of Radar and its development in peace, and war told by its greatest pioneer in one of the most important......

Rather Than Ahab Monologue Of A Deaf Man. By David

Wright. (Andre Deutsch. 12s. 6d.) PORTRAITS in urbane free verse—one might almost call them vignettes—of the English colony in an Italian Art City before the First World War.......

A Graphic And Entertaining "pommie's"-eye View Of Life...

down under by a young English bachelor who recently emigrated to start a new life in Australia. 234 pp., 9 pp. of illus. 18s. Od. net Colonel, the Hon. F. H. (Fred) Cripps, The......

The ,finest Epiclstory Writing Prodir:ed By The War,...

an eminent man of letters and preSented in the forni of twenty- six unabridged extracts from classic war books, including The Dam Busters, The Last Enemy, etc. 320 pp. 15s. Od.......