RECENT & READABLE

The Twenty-Fifth Hour, by Virgil Gheorghiu. A concentration-camp novel which has become Europe's bestseller; chiefly interesting as a landmark in European pessimism in the first aftermath of World War II (TIME, Nov. 6).

Back, by Henry Green. A slim but engaging story of an English war veteran who learns that shell shock, a metal leg and the death of his old flame don't mean the end of life after all (TIME, Oct. 30).

LIFE'S Picture History of World War II. A vivid assembly of World War II's actions, scenes and faces (TIME, Oct. 23).

A Fearful Joy, by Joyce Gary. The life & times of Tabitha Baskett; a new novel by an Englishman who writes in the old meat-and-marrow tradition of English fiction (TIME, Oct. 16).

Standings' Way, by Eric Hodgins. The faintly sad story of what happened to Mr. Blandings when he moved into his dream house and became a citizen of suburbia (TIME, Oct. 16).

The Trouble of One House, by Brendan Gill. An ironic first novel about a woman who loved other people so truly that they could not help resenting her (TIME, Oct. 16).

The Man of Independence, by Jonathan Daniels. The best of the biographies of Harry Truman, spiced with candid presidential comments on political contemporaries at home & abroad (TIME, Oct. 2).

Our Jungle Road to Tokyo, by,Robert L. Eichelberger with Milton MacKaye. Combat and command decisions in the Pacific; General Eichelberger understood both (TIME, Oct. 2).

Parade's End, by Ford Madox Ford. The downfall of "Last Tory" Christopher Tietjens, seen as the end of a whole society; a major revival (four novels in one) of a neglected English modern (TIME, Sept. 25).

Brave Company, by Guthrie Wilson. Rare realism in the story of a World War II infantry company in the line; fiction without the tricks of a fictioneer, by a New Zealander who was there (TIME, Sept. 18).

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