Battle for the Solomons

MR. WOLFERT’S fiction is familiar to readers of the O’Brien collections. Here he writes fact — war as he observed it during October and November in the expensive campaign the Japs waged against us on Guadalcanal. Inevitably in a book that treads on the heels of the news, the stories give the impression of being hastily strung together. But it is a breezy book of the moment, filled with good stories. A man’s book, lively, interesting.