UNQUIET NIGHT (122 pp.)Albrechf GoesHoughfon Mifflin ($2.25).
"Heil Hitler, padre! . . . Let's skip all the phony piety, shall we? When a man deserts he's asking for all he gets . . . The rest is up to the firing squad. Victory will go to the strong, and the Fiihrer has no time for yellowbellies."
To the troubled Protestant army chaplain, hard-bitten Major Kartuschke's bluster, meant only one thinganother German had chloroformed his conscience. In twelve hours, one of Major Kartuschke's prisoners21-year-old Lance Corporal Fedor Baranowskiwould be shot by a firing squad. Curiosity and compassion impelled the chaplain to find out why....
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