THE CROSS BEARERS—A. M. Frey— Viking ($2.50). Publishers, reviewers, readers, dreading the saturation point, grow leery of War books. But still War books are coming out; now and then comes one that should be read. The Cross Bearers is one to read. Though far from being a record of unrelieved horrors, it shows war's seamiest side, and with open seams. It is a story of a German medical corps. Author Frey. onetime stretcher -bearer, Red -Cross-wearer, knows whereof he writes.
Private Funk, pacifist at heart in the heart of a nation under arms,...