THE LAST VALLEY (176 pp.)J.B. Pick Little, Brown ($3.50).
The starving man hunts desperately through the burning village. He finds "dead legs, dead stomachs, dead fingers, but no boots, food or rings"; other soldiers have scavenged before him. Then he comes upon a corpse marked by plague, and runs from the village in terror.
"For three days after this," the author relates, "his legs dragged along a body unable to break the habit of survival." At last, hardly conscious, he staggers through a mountain pass. What he sees convinces him that he has gone mad: a peaceful valley, ripening crops and an unburnt...
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