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Week of July 7, 1946

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THE EGG AND I
Betty MacDonald
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THE EGG AND I

by Betty MacDonald · Lippincott

42 wks at #1 · 37 on list
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I CHOSE FREEDOM
Victor A. Kravchenko

I CHOSE FREEDOM

by Victor A. Kravchenko · Scribner

8 wks on list

Russisk embedsmands opgør med Sovjetstyret

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LAST CHAPTER
Ernie Pyle
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LAST CHAPTER

by Ernie Pyle · Holt

3 wks on list

"No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told," wrote Harry Truman. "He deserves the gratitude of all his countrymen." THIS is the final book of Ernie Pyle's war reporting. After Africa, Italy, and D-Day on the European continent, Pyle took it the hard way again. There was still the Pacific war to win, and where the fighting was Ernie had to go, soul-sick though he was with the thousands of scenes of death and destruction he had already witnessed. He was attached to the Navy early in 1945. In the Marianas first and then living with the boys who flew the B-29s over the Japanese homeland, Pyle was experiencing a side of the war that was new to him. Next he joined an aircraft carrier on the invasion of Okinawa. He made the landing with the Marines and saw Okinawa secured. Then his luck ran out. A Japanese bullet killed Ernie Pyle on April 17th, 1945 on Ie Shima, and Americans lost their greatest and best-loved correspondent. Millions mourned the going of this modest man who wrote of the war with all honesty and no pretensions, and whose writings will stand as one of the most vital records of the struggle. LAST CHAPTER is a brief, brave little book to complete that record permanently. There is a sixteen-page picture section and an index of names and places.

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MY THREE YEARS WITH EISENHOWER
Harry C. Butcher
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MY THREE YEARS WITH EISENHOWER

by Harry C. Butcher · Simon & Schuster

9 wks on list

Maps on lining-papers. London edition (W. Heinemann ltd.) has title: Three years with Eisenhower.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.