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Title: The nation
Year: 1865 (1860s)
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Publisher: New York, N.Y. : J.H. Richards
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attack the strategy of other Allied of-
ficers. We are all familiar with the run-
ning feud between Montgomery and
Eisenhower over the best way to have
brought Germany to her knees; the
sniping continues, with Monty firing
the most recent salvo (The Memoirs
of Field-Marshall Montgomery). We
are familiar too with "Vinegar Joe"
Stilwell's three-front battles with Chiang,
Mountbatten and F.D.R.. (The Stil-
well Papers); and with Wedemeyer Re-
ports, in which the replacement for Stil-
well opened a new front in the attack
on F.D.R., accusing him of turning
China over to communism and of in-
stigating a senseless war with Germany.
The second-guessing provides somewhat
interesting reading, but says very little
to the reader who wants to know what
the war was all about and what
it meant.
Finally — except for The Stilwell
Papers whose informality, preserved in
the excellent editing of Theodore White,
is refreshing — such books are notori-
ously ill-written, even if ghosted. This
excerpt from the two paragraphs in
Crusade in Europe which Eisenhower
devotes to the horrors of concentration
camps is a fair sample of the quality:
I have never felt able to describe
my emotional reactions when I first
came face to face with indisputable

November 19, I960
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