SHORT CUT TO TOKYO,

by Corey FordScribners, 1943, 141 pages, $1.75

There have been books about the Fying Tigers, about the expendables in the Pacific, about Tunisia. We know quite a bit about the R.A.F., the so few (once) who did so much. We know much less about the American fliers in the fog swept, cold archipelago of the Aleutian Islands. And it makes a thrilling story. It is well that it has at last been told, and well told, too, by Corey Ford.

This book can be read at a sitting. It is important that we realize that Japan meant business when she went to Attu and to Kiska. Her invasion failed and this book tells you how and why.

These pilots don't want to be called heroes. They simply do the job they have been .superbly trained for. How they do it you will find when you read the stories of actual combat missions written by the crews themselves. The story of a bombing run over Kiska, by Second Lieut. Nelson H. Drake (an appropriate name) is a little masterpiece of factual reporting. You will long remember it.

I collect war books; I try to buy only the best. This is one I am glad to have permanently on my shelves and when the Class of 19— has a reunion I want the class's autograph in my copy. It is a personal book and I envy Corey's associations with our bomber and fighter crews in Alaska.

I recommend this book which points one way, certainly, in which we will one day "take" Japan.