Alistair Cooke, U.S. correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, recently surveyed the reaction of U.S. critics to a new book by an Australian author (Chester Wilmot's The Struggle for EuropeTIME, March 31). "Since TIME magazine is the most influential book page in the country," Cooke said, "it is safe to assume that several million Americans who will never read the book have already taken instruction in how they ought to feel if they had."
Cooke might better have said, "how they might feel if they had read the book." For the great number of you who buy books, TIME tries to offer...
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