Brave Company
by.
Putnam’s, $3.00.
Little if any of the fiction dealing with the infantry in World War II has projected the experience of combat with such patent honesty and effective artlessness such eloquent fidelity to the whole truth — as this unpretentious first novel by a New Zealander who served with the British Eighth Army. The book describes how a platoon of New Zealanders on a mountain front in Italy fought, died, rested, and fought again. A remarkable piece of documentary writing.