+ N Y Times 25:11 Ja 11 ’20 1100w
“Vivid, convincing, written in a style at once strong and flexible and revealing an unusual gift for character portrayal. ‘The secret battle’ is one of the few really big novels of the world war.”
+ N Y Times 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 200w
“Being the work of a cultivated Englishman, it has the restraint of the famous public-school tradition. It wishes to betray too little rather than too much feeling. Its manner is tense with sympathy, but its matter approaches dryness.” H. W. Boynton
+ − Review 2:257 Mr 13 ’20 350w Spec 122:800 Je 21 ’19 100w
“The indictment against the verdict is stated quietly and without passion. The issue it raises is of interest to all ex-service men; how far must the army treat men as things, how far can and should it treat them as persons?”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 F 5 ’20 320w
“Needless to say, it is a painful book. Comfortable people who do not like their feelings harrowed will no more find it to their taste than they found ‘Justice’ or ‘Jude the obscure’, to their taste. To the former, indeed, the last part of ‘The secret battle’ offers a striking parallel. Not in detail, for it is pitched in a quieter key, and its author expressly states that he is not attempting to indict a system.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p356 Jl 3 ’19 500w
HERGESHEIMER, JOSEPH. San Cristóbal de la Habana. *$3 (4c) Knopf 917.29