RECENT & READABLE

This Is War! by David Douglas Duncan. Superb photographs, uncaptioned but linked by three terse narrative text pieces, give an unrivaled sense of what the fighting in Korea has been like to the foot soldiers who slugged it out (TIME, June 25).

The Teahouse of the August Moon, by Vern Sneider. An amiable U.S. Army captain, assigned as an occupation administrator, is presented with two respectable geisha girls as "souvenirs," and learns about the Okinawan way of life from them. Pleasant summer reading (TIME, June 25).

A Soldier's Story, by Omar N. Bradley. The top U.S. military man tells how the war in Western Europe was fought and won (TIME, June 18).

The Age of Elegance, by Arthur Bryant. Third volume of a brilliant historical trilogy on England during the Napoleonic era (TIME, June 11).

Invitation to Moscow, by Z. Stypulkowski. Gripping personal history by a Polish underground leader who refused to "confess" despite 70 days & nights of Soviet-style interrogation (TIME, June 4).

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