For reasons ranging from purest merit to merest popularity, ten books stood head & shoulders above the madding crowd in 1942: The Raft, by Robert Trumbull ($2.50), and They Were Expendable, by W. L.

THEY WERE EXPENDABLE—W. L White —Harcourt, Brace ($2). This book is a personal report by participants about the naval war which U.S. PT-boats waged against the Japanese navy while U.S. troops still ...