"OCCUPIED TERRITORY"

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 297, 17 December 1941, Page 2

"OCCUPIED TERRITORY"

TRAVELS IN El KOI’E. NEW BOOKS AT WANGANUI PUBLIC LIBRARY. Among new books at the Wanganui Public Library. 'Occupied Territory." by Polly Peabody, a young American member of the AmericanScandinavian Field Hospital, gives the record of her travels and experiences in what was mostly Nazi-occupied Europe during the greater part of last rear. Il is a lively record, despite all the abomination and tragedy Miss Peabody witnesses with a ring of passion al the end. In the last resorl she speaks directly to her own people:— "Did they really oeliere that tney could sit smugly between their tiro oceans, and enjoy their own private freedom with halt of Europe in chains, and the rest of it conspiring to destroy us?” Fiction. "The Ship and the Shore" (Vicki Baumi. "The Blind Man's House" < Hugh Walpole), “Young Ambition" (Barbara Gootden), "Stolen Halo" (Barbara Cartland), "Death in Botanist's Bay" tElizabeth Ferraro), "Laily Gone Astray" (Kathleen Hewitt l . “Ragged Robin" (Philip Hughes), "The Long Journey" (Norah C. James), “Can This Be X" (Henrietta Lesliei, Maigret and M. Labbe (Georges Simenon), "The Battling Skyman" (Tie.or \va> lace), "Two - Gun tied..' hopper" (Trevor Wallace), "Twin Gunmen' (Flank Carr), "Potluck Rides With the Law" . Ney N. Ge.-t . Non-Fiction. ■ "The Londoners (James Parish). "Holland Fights the Nazis” (L. DeJong), "Occupied Territory" (Polly Peabodyi. "From Dunkirk to Benghazi" (Strategieus). "Reluctant Pitale (Capt. Frank II Shaw), "Private Thomas Atkins' (Douglas G. Brounei. “Who Walks Alone" (Percy Burgess), "Regimental Mascots and Pets’ (Maj- !• ./ Edwards). "Rowing” (G. O. Nickolls and D. P. C. Mallam). “The Behaviour of Nations" (Morley Roberts), “Sagittarius, Rhyming” (Sagittatiust, "Economic Tribulation” ..Vincent C. \itk-