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Beyond the War Books
Brody, Alter | July 23, 1930 issue

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The article critically appraises the book "The Whistlers' Room," by Paul Alverdes. To speak of this novelette as a war book and assign it a higher or lower rank in the established hierarchy of war novels is to miss completely the nature of its significance. This lies primarily in the fact that it is the first novel dealing with any phase of the war that is not a war novel. One can no more call it a product of the war than one can call "The Red Badge of Courage" a product of the Civil War.

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BOOKS & reading; WHISTLERS' Room, The (Book); ALVERDES, Paul; WAR; CIVIL war; FICTION
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