Books: Day of Wrath and Joy

DAY OF THE CONQUERORS (276 pp.)—Niven Busch—Harper ($2.50).

War Correspondent Mark Gregory did not admit that he suspected his wife, Corinne, of being unfaithful to him while he was away in the Pacific. But when he came back to San Francisco on the morning of V-J day and found that Corinne was not at home, years of suppressed doubt and jealousy burst like a boil. When at last Mark discovered Corinne at a chichi cocktail party, her touchy manner made him furious. "I missed you," she insisted. "You know that. [But] you've got to give me a chance to get used to...

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