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The Near East : Problems and Prospects. Harris Foundation Lectures, 1942. Edited by P. W. Ireland. 7 1/2? × 5?. Pp. 265 + xiv. End maps. University of Chicago Press. The Campaign in Greece and Crete. Issued for the War Office by the Ministry of Information. 9d. Letters from Syria. By Freya Stark. Edited by Sir Sidney Cockerill. Pp. 194. 24 pp. photographs. (No map.) John Murray. 1942. 9s. India's Fateful Hour. By Sir William Barton, K.C.I.E., C.S.I. 8? × 5 1/2? Pp. 157. 8 illustrations. London : John Murray. Retreat to Victory, by Allan A. Michie, published by George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., is probably the first complete account of the war in the Middle East from the fall of France to the summer of 1942. The book explains very truly and sympathetically the great work done by our small Forces with their meagre equipment, hampered by the long sea routes for shipping. Soviet Asia. By Violet Connolly. Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs, No. 62. 4d. The Gobi Desert. Mildred Cable with Francesca French. Pp. 303. 3 plates in colour. 48 photographs. Map. Hodder and Stoughton. 1943. 21s. The Foreigner in China. By O. M. Green. Pp. 182. London: Hutchinson and Co., Ltd. 15s. Sharaf Al‐Zaman Tahir Marvazi on China, the Turks and India. Arabic text (circa A.D. 1120), with an English translation and commentary by Professor Minorsky. James G. Forlong Fund. 1942. Tadkhirat‐al‐Muluk. A Manual of Safavid Administration (circa 1137–1735). By V. Minorsky. British Orientalists. By A. J. Arberry, Pp. 48. London : Collins. 1943. Price 4s. 6d. Karma and Rebirth. By T. Christmas Humphreys. “Wisdom of the East” Series. 6 3/4? × 5?. Pp.80. John Murray. 3s. 6d. Intertraffic. Studies in Translation. By E. S. Bates. Pp. 179. London: Jonathan Cape. 1943. 8s. 6d. Asia and Democracy. By Pearl S. Buck. 8? × 5 1/4?. Pp.92. Macmillan. 1943. 4s. 6d. Towards Peace in Palestine, by Judah L. Magnes, Foreign Affairs, January, 1943, is an article worthy of very careful thought, written by the President of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, a man with wide sympathy and understanding of those who may hold different views. He has worked for years for a better relation between Jew and Arab and his views demand respect.
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