Books: Kinds of Fighting

THE SHIP — C. S. Forester — Litfle, Brown ($2.50).

THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE AIR—Flying Officer X—Knopf ($2).

Both these books are deep-felt, enthusiastic studies of men and machines in battle; both are written by trained, ob servant storytellers. "Flying Officer X" is H. E. Bates, one of Britain's most talented short-story writers (The Poacher, My Uncle Silas). His sketches of life in the R.A.F. are the result of an assignment to Britain's Bomber Command. C. S. Forester (Captain Horatio Hornblower, Riflleman Dodd and The Gun, TIME, March 29), the British Navy's...

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