Books: Home to the Wars

BETWEEN THE THUNDER AND THE SUN—Vincent Sheean—Random House ($3).

At the end of Vincent Sheean's Personal History (TIME, Feb. 4, 1935) he told how he stood near the Acropolis at Athens one day and held a passionately political conversation with the ghost of a Bolshevik. The Bolshevik was the late Rayna Prohme, U.S. Marxist, with whom Sheean had had a violently platonic love affair during the Chinese revolution and later in Moscow. "But I'm not a revolutionary," Sheean complained. Said Rayna's spirit: "Whoever told you you had to be a revolutionary? Everybody isn't born...