Books: Recent & Readable, Sep. 25, 1950

Brave Company, by Guthrie Wilson. Rare realism in the story of a World War II infantry company in the line; fiction without the tricks of a fictioneer, by a New Zealander who was there (TIME, Sept. 18).

Kon-Tiaki, by Thor Heyerdahl. How to sail to Polynesia on a raft, by one of six Scandinavians who did just that and had a whale of a time (TIME, Sept. 18).

Hunting American Bears, by Frank C. Hibben. Thirteen certified yarns on the subject, as fascinating as most of Ernest Thompson Seton (TIME, Sept. 18).

Across the River and into the Trees, by Ernest Hemingway. The No. 1 U.S. novelist at his pompous, pretentious, and patronizing worst (TIME, Sept. 11).

The Gallant Hood, by John P. Dyer. A penetrating biography of one of the most fearless and most rash of the Confederacy’s commanders (TIME, Sept. 11).

Ill Met by Moonlight, by W. Stanley Moss. How a handful of British agents kidnaped a German general under the eyes of his garrison in Crete; a high-spirited account of one of the boldest stunts of the war, by one of the Britons who brought it off (TIME, Sept. 4).

Collected Stories of William Faulkner. Forty-two stories, half of them good, half a dozen very good, by one of the best U.S. writers of his generation (TIME, Aug. 28).

Cats and People, by Frances and Richard Lockridge. Felis domestica, from tail to whiskers, from ancient Egypt to the present (TIME, Aug. 28).

The Secret Game, by François Boyer. A stark little story about the game with animals and crosses that two French children thought up after seeing too much death (TIME, Aug. 14).

Springtime in Paris, by Elliot Paul. A postwar report by the author of The Last Time I Saw Paris; chiefly for fellow Francophiles (TIME, Aug. 14).

The Old Bailey and Its Trials, by Bernard O’Donnell. A hair-raising history of London’s famous, once infamous, old court of law (TIME, Aug. 7).

Beyond Defeat, by Hans Richter. The last, lost stages of World War II as seen by Germans who fought at Cassino (TIME, July 31).