Books: RECENT & READABLE, Mar. 12, 1951

The Broken Root, by Arturo Barea. A novelized report on Franco Spain by a Spaniard who chooses to live in England (TIME, March 5).

Sink ‘Em All, by Charles A. Lockwood; Battle Submerged, by Harley Cope and Walter Karig. The coming of age of the U.S. submarine service; dramatic stories of the subs in World War II (TIME, March 5).

From Here to Eternity, by James Jones. Man’s inhumanity to man in the prewar Army; a long, loud, four-lettered blast by an angry first novelist (TIME, Feb. 26).

Florence Nightingale, by Cecil Wood-ham-Smith. Incandescent humanitarian-ism—and the “voices” that inspired it—in a biography which notably revises the standard portrait (TIME, Feb. 26).

The Age of Longing, by Arthur Koestler. Agnostic Hydie and the commissar; a Koestler allegory of East, West and Hydie’s slow enlightenment. No Darkness at Noon (TIME, Feb. 26).

Into Thin Air, by Warren Beck. A small but sure novel about two lost souls in a Midwestern town (TIME, Feb. 19).

Robert Burns, by David Daiches. A scholar’s scanning of poetry and poet (TIME, Feb. 12).

Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural, by Algernon Blackwood. Selected stories by one of fiction’s most famous commuters to the Great Beyond (TIME, Feb. 12).

The Pencil of God, by Pierre Marcelin and Philippe Thoby-Marcelin. The decline & fall of a Haitian businessman whose only weakness was women (TIME, Feb. 5).

The Far Side of Paradise, by Arthur Mizener. The life, times and half-fulfilled promise of F. Scott Fitzgerald (TIME, Jan. 29).

Rommel, the Desert Fox, by Desmond Young. A brisk, well-written biography by a British brigadier who obviously admires his subject (TIME, Jan. 22).