(4 of 4)
A PASSIONATE PRODIGALITY, by Guy Chapman. This memoir of life and death in the trenches is an authentic classic of World War I, an elegy for a generation, written unsentimentally and unforgettably.
THE LAST BATTLE, by Cornelius Ryan. Historian-Journalist Ryan recounts the fall of Hitler's capital and details the Allied blunders and political naiveté that allowed Stalin to seize Berlin as a prize.
THE DOUBLE IMAGE, by Helen MacInnes. Master Spywriter MacInnes again pits an innocent and firm-chinned hero against a murderous crew of international spies, and still again the result is a literate and topnotch suspense tale.
A GENEROUS MAN, by Reynolds Price. A North Carolina country boy comes to terms with the joys and responsibilities of manhood in this buoyant, funny novel.
THE FATAL IMPACT, by Alan Moorehead. Writing in the wake of Captain Cook, Bougainville and other great Pacific navigators and explorers, the superbly skilled journalist-historian Alan Moorehead takes soundings of philosophic depth—savage and civilized man in confrontations unresolved to this day.
TOO FAR TO WALK, by John Hersey. Author Hersey's Faustian tale of a sophomore who temporarily becomes the Devil's man rates only a B—, but his pitiless portrait of today's collegiate scene earns him an easy A.
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FICTION
1. The Double Image, MacInnes (2 last week)
2. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (4)
3. The Source, Michener (1)
4. The Embezzler, Auchincloss (3)
5. Those Who Love, Stone (5)
6. The Adventurers, Robbins (6)
7. The Comedians, Greene (9)
8. Tell No Man, St. Johns (8)
9. The Billion Dollar Brain, Deighton (7)
10. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (10)
NONFICTION
1. In Cold Blood, Capote (1)
2. The Last Battle, Ryan (3)
3. Games People Play, Berne (5)
4. The Last 100 Days, Toland (4)
5. The Proud Tower, Tuchman (2)
6. Papa Hemingway, Hotchner
7. Unsafe at Any Speed, Nader
8. A Thousand Days, Schlesinger (6)
9. A Gift of Prophecy, Montgomery (7)
10. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey
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