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In the trade journal The Bookseller, British Novelist Nicholas Monsarrat, who saw World War II from a Royal Navy bridge and told his story in The Cruel Sea (about 800,000 copies sold), trained his guns on Herman Wouk, U.S.N.R. and The Caine Mutiny (about 2,000,000 copies). Wouk's novel of life on a minesweeper, said Monsarrat, "is most readable, often engrossing, and as true an account . . . as a ten-year-old child's drawing of an aircraft carrier."
Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith, who grinningly told reporters that some "goddam statesman" had...
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