Books: Armigerent

THE AMAZON—Elliot Paul—Liveright ($2.50).

Author Paul tells this fantastic story as if it had happened to himself, and so plausibly that it ceases to appear fantastic. The narrator, a U. S. newspaperman in Paris, gets into talk with another ex-U. S. soldier in a café, and hears a strange yarn about a signalling detachment of 40 women who managed to get up to the front. Their commander, Lieutenant Alberta Snyder, had drilled them into a fine body of women. During the drive against the Hindenburg Line they did yeoman service at the field telephones; an infuriated but harassed commanding officer allowed...

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