Television: Aug. 30, 1968

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THE VIOLENT PEACE, by Carl and Shelley Mydans. Two veteran war reporters combine the pictures and eyewitness accounts of 44 TIME-LIFE correspondents in an examination of the changing face of combat in the nuclear age.

1897 SEARS ROEBUCK CATALOGUE, introductions by S. J. Perelman and Richard Rovere. A rich trove for both serious and lighthearted students of Americana, this hard-cover facsimile of a popular mailorder catalogue mirrors the manners, morals and appetites of the Gay Nineties.

HENRY VIM, by J. J. Scarisbrick. The cunning and flamboyant 16th century monarch is examined from some unflattering angles in this extensive biography by a British historian.

BRING LARKS AND HEROES, by Thomas Keneally. A mythic tale of an Irish soldier in the garrison of a penal colony vividly evokes the brutality, courage and grace of 18th century Australia.

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