Volume 22, Number 21 & 22 · January 22, 1976

The Good War

By Neal Ascherson
The Second World War: An Illustrated History
by A.J.P. Taylor

Putnam's, 240 pp., $17.50

WW II: A Chronicle of Soldiering
by James Jones, by Art Weithas

Grosset and Dunlap, 272 pp., $25.00

'Weygand became Commander in Chief: he was 73. He tapped his briefcase, saying, 'I have the secrets of Marshal Foch.' The briefcase was empty. Weygand cancelled Gamelin's instructions for a combined offensive, and….'



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