Standish High School - Crimson Rambler Yearbook (Standish, ME)

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,-o LITERATURE IF THE NAR Down through all ages some of the greatest and'most last- ing stories have come from observers of or participants in wars. Recording the adventures of Ulysses in the Trojan Wars, Homer, the great Greek poet, wrote his two greatest works. Perhaps the most familiar work of the Rmmans is Caesar's ac- count of his many battles on the continent of Europe. Many a chapter in the Bible is the story of warfare between two tribes. There is not eneurh space to list the names of au- thors and poets of every language who have used incidents or whole battles as material for their fiction. ' From this present war have cone already many books--among them: HBerl1n Diaryu by a war correspondent, William Shirerg HParis Undorgroundn by Ltta Shiber, a woman caught in Paris when the Germans cameg Hlhirty Seconds Over Tokyon writtenky a.noted flier, Ted Lawson, HThese Hen Shall Never Dieu by Lowell Thomas, a well-known comuentatorg Hiar Tiden by a young Chinese girl, Lin Taijig dRoad To Tunisu by a splendid Amer- ican author, David Rameg Nhy Native Banda a report on the Par- tisan-Chctnik conflict in yuyoslavia by Louis Adamif and countless others. It is too soon as yet to determine whether anyone of these will halo a place for itself as permanent lit- erature. But there is no doubt of their future value as first hand accounts and, therefore, they will be referred to con- stantly, as time goes on, as sources of local color and cor- rect details. Jhatever their future may bc, now almost all of these are the utmost ingortance to us as individuals ,and as a nation. Diese books, accounts by corresgcndents on the battle fronts, narratives of the war's victims, and personal accounts of sol- diers, give us a better conception of thc causes and possible results of this gigantic battle. In the book Nlhe Serbs Choos, Warn by Ruth litchell, the author tells us of the struggle within Yugoslavia itself and of the horrors being suffered there by her oeoplc. Above and beyond this sho tries to make us realize what nay be oxgected from these discouraged homeless warsick people. Hiis story is only one of the many fine books of this type. me of America who have no idea of Wh3tffiS really like cannot hope to understand our allies' attitude without clearer understanding, and we can hope to attain that clearer under- standing only by clearer thinking which is to be obtained only through extensive and thcuyhtful readiny. Shirley Whalen '45

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