
THE GRAND ALLIANCE
by Winston S. Churchill · Houghton Mifflin
Dealing with war on a giant scale, THE GRAND ALLIANCE focuses on events as Britain, after fighting a desperate battle alone, was joined in the struggle against the enemy by Soviet Russia and the United Sates. Hitler's invasion of Russia brought to an end a period of almost exactly a year during which Britain and her Empire had stood alone. Six months later, the United States, attacked by Japan, joined the war and the Grand Alliance was born. It was a momentous turn in the course of the war and Sir Winston Churchill noted, 'United we could subdue everybody else in the world. Many disasters, immeasurable cost and tribulation lay ahead, but there was no more doubt about the end.'
THE ART OF REAL HAPPINESS
by Norman Vincent Peale and Smiley Blanton · Prentice-Hall
Based on case histories of the author and the discussions on love, hate, peace of mind, stress, aging, bereavement, and other hopes of renewal.


THE PEABODY SISTERS OF SALEM
by Louise Hall Tharp · Little, Brown and Company
Tharp collection.


WAR OR PEACE
by John Foster Dulles · Macmillan
Dulles, a prominent American lawyer, argues that the chances of preserving world peace will be enhanced by pursuing a general policy of live-and-let-live as far as ideologies are concerned, and by diminishing the economic and political isolation of each nation. He proposes that the "status quo" Powers, by the process of "peaceful change," meet the legitimate demands of the so-called "have-nots" in order to avoid compelling the latter to resort to war to gain their ends.--Provided by Robert Gale Woolbert, review at foreignaffairs.com.




THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING
by Christopher Fry · Oxford University Press
This is a romantic comedy in three acts, set in verse. It is set in the medieval period. It is about a war-weary soldier who wants to die and a woman accused of witchcraft who wants to live.
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