Books: Escape

THEY SHALL NOT HAVE ME-Hellon—Duffon ($3).

The successful escape from a German prison camp of Jean Hélion, French soldier and abstractionist painter, ranks with the escape of Casanova from the Leads, or Peter Kropotkin from the fortress of Peter & Paul. This book is the detailed description of Hélion's two-year imprisonment and flight (TIME, Nov. 23). As a breath-taking narrative of captivity and escape and as a unique firsthand description of the miseries of life among Germany's French prisoners, They Shall Not Have Me is one of the half-dozen most remarkable books of...