Mediterranean Front

HUNTING, according to the retired grocer of Great Coram Street, is ‘the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent of its danger.’ Similarly, war corresponding may be the image of war and guiltless, but after reading Mediterranean Front I have come to believe that it involves much more than five-and-twenty per cent of war’s danger and also most of its discomforts. Mr. Moorehead would be the first to disclaim heroism on his part, but certainly his coverage of the British campaigns in Africa and the Middle East involved the hardships of desert and jungle, dangers by sea and land, and the constant preoccupations of the conscientious journalist. In spite of everything, he tells his story clearly and well. Thanks to air transport, he was able to cover the campaigns in North Africa and in Abyssinia as well as those in Greece and Crete. And his is the best description which I have read of those fluctuating battles and of the men who fought them.

R. E. D.