POW: 1Lt Robert D. Peterson - Stalag Luft I - Books Read while in prison camp

2LT Robert Dea Peterson Jr.
WWII POW Journal - Stalag Luft 1 - Barth, Germany

429th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy)
2nd Bomb Group, 15th Air Force, Foggia, Italy
B-17F "Lydia Pinkham" - Aircraft Serial # 42-5409

(February 1944): To Read

"Money and Banking" Author, Kitson
Letters of Madame Vigee [Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842)]
Aristotle 'Politics'
Loche's "Essay on Human Understanding"
"Three acres and a Cow" Frederic Impey about Cistercian brotherhoods in Dugdale's 'Monasticon'
"Reconstruction and the Land" by Sir Daniel Hall --propaganda by E.L Bernays "Crystallizing Public Opinion" S.S.

Charm of Scandinavia 1914
Sassnitz, Germany 4hrs p2
Trelleborg, Sweden
Iceland Riigen
Codex Argenteus
Bishop Ulshilgs 388
4 gospels with preformed letters
Christian II Denmark 1520
Gustavous Vash
Gustavous Adolphus 1632
Breitenfeld 1631
Lutzen 1632
Smorgasbord
assimilated currency
fosterbrodralag
Given by the Fatherland to it Hope 170

"The Sea is so Wide" - by Evelyn Eaton, 1943, Harper & Brothers Publishers, N.Y. 48 East 33rd St. N.Y. Story of the Acadians in Nova Scotia. Would make a good motion picture 1937

"Mathematics In Life" - Schorling & Clark World Book Co--Yonkers on Hudson, N.Y., also 2126 Prairie Ave. Chicago. Best math book for high school I've read.

"Sooner Land"- George W. Ogden author of "Short Grass", Grosset and Dunlap 1927. --Pioneering story different from & superior to most wild twists. Located at Cimarron 1889.

"Harness" - A. Hamilton Gibbs 1928 McClelland & Stewart Toronto -- English Major settles into Harness after war. Eliminate "Old thing" and would be appropriate to today.

"Kindred of the Dust" - Peter B. Kyne 1920 Hodder & Stoughton Lumber business in Washington.
Good portrayal of stress and strains on Scotch family over son marrying a wanton

"Robert Walpole and His Age" by G. R. Stirling Taylor 1931 Jonathon Cape 30 Bedford Sq, London 91 Wellington Street West, Toronto Biography favorable to Robin in most incidents. Quotes many Mrs. and letters of the period. Portraits of Queens and the chief men in the opposition. Robin believed in moderation wherever possible.

"The Sting of the Whip" by C.C. and E.M. Mott 1930 George Allen and Unwin Ltd. London. Farm Life
in England covering a man's life. Author has characters dialogue, interspersed with their true feelings.

"The Last Days of Pompeii" - Lord Lytton Affected in many parts.
Gives description of Roman life in 79A.D. Pub by T. Nelson & Sons, Eng

Stephen Leacock - "Behind the Beyond" London 1928--John Lane. The Bradlely Head Limited.
Hilarious nonsense - Understandable double-talk.

"Southern Harvest" - Clare Leighton 1943 Victor Gollancz Limited, London.
Personal impressions of country life in the South. Excellent woodcuts.

"Henry Ward Beecher, an American Portrait" by Paxton Hillen Issued by Readers Club. The high and mighty are lowly too. Originally published about 1927.

"The Bedside Book, A miscellany for the Quiet Hours". Selected by Arthur Stanley - London 1932 Victor Gollancz Ltd. 14 Henrietta W.C. An excellent assortment of verse, essays and quips. 875 pages

"The Intimate Thoughts of John Baxter, Bookseller". Edited by Augustus Muir. Three months journal of bookseller just prior to his marriage. Meuthen & Co. Ltd. London 36 Essex Street, Strand. W.C. 2 1942

"God and The King" 1911 Marjorie Bowen Methuen & Co. Ltd. London 36 Essex St. W.C. Dramatized portrayal of William and Mary's reign with emphasis on will.

"The History of England" from the Accession of James the Second by Lord Macaulay Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer London 1891. A detailed account giving much contemporary information

"Letters from Lady Mary Wortley Montague" with introduction by R. Brimley Johnson Everyman's library ed. By Ernest Rhys. J. M. Dent company London. E. P. Dutton & Co. N. Y. Details of English & Turkish life.

"Machiavelli Presented" - by Count Carlo Sforza - 1942 Cassell & Co. Ltd. London Toronto. Selections of his works & letters. Volume one of 20 from the living thoughts library.

"King Goshawk & the Birds" (1926) Eimar O'Duffy - Macmillon & Co. St. Martin's Street London Satire on present day conditions biting in a similarity to Swift.

"J. D. Jones of Bournemouth" - Arthur Porritt 1942 Independent Press, Memorial Hall E. C. 4 Biography of modern protestant English preacher with some of his sermons.

"Building Construction & Drawing" 1942 by George A. Mitchell, B.T. Batsford Ltd 15 North Audley St., W.I. and Malvern Wells, Worcestershire English methods of construction in 2 volumes

"The Mighty Atom" - Marie Corelli, 1896 Meuthen & Co. Ltd. 36 Essex St. W. C. London Young boy raised by stern father who believes not in religion.

Rev. Father G. J. Hall, St Mary's College, Grange over Sands, Lancashire, England

"The Arches of the Years" Halliday Sutherland 1933 Geoffrey Blas 17 Essex St. Strand London Doctors autobiography, concerned with many people and events. Interesting.

"Looking Backward" - Edward Bellamy (1887) The Modern Library, New York - Random House He visualizes America in 2000 with a marvelous Utopian brotherhood.

"Hotel Management" Lucius Boomer 1925 Harper & Brothers N. Y. Concerned with hotels of large size mainly.

"The English Countryman" 1942 H. J. Massingham - B. T. Batsford, Ltd. 15 North Audley St. W.1 - England has bartered its heritage of the small land worker for mass ground exploitation. Only by returning to intensive small plot cultivation

"A History of Everyday Things in England" - Marjorie and C. H. B. Quennell publishers B. T. Batsford London 15 North Audley St., Mayfair, London 1933 Excellent history fully illustrated - one of a series. Speaks of: "Diary" by Rev. James Woodforde published by Oxford University Press.
"The Horse Going Husbandry" by Jethro Tull 1733

"The Pack of Pieces" Anthony Armstrong 1942 Michael Joseph Ltd. 26 Bloomsbury St. London, W.C.1. Comical fairy tales.

"400 Tricks You Can Do" by Howard Thurston 1940, Blue Ribbon Books, Garden City, N.Y.

"Vegetable Growers Treasury" 2nd Edition, A.J. Macself W.H. &L. Collingridge Ltd. 2-10 Javistork Street, Covent Garden W.C.2.

"Lives of the 12 Caesars" by Suetonius Ed by Joseph Gavorse Modern Library, N.Y. 1931

"The Week End Book" Francis & Vera Meynell, The Nonsuch Press - Bloomsbury 1924 to 1939 editions - Excellent collection of poems, camping, cooking, stars, first aid, birds.

"Gone Rustic" - Cecil Roberts 1934 - Lady Bluff Apington (shall we say?) - Holder & Stoughton London
Disraeli would have found little that was unusual in this drawing room

"The Romance of Steel" - serial in Munsey's Magazine 1905 - Book by Herbert N. Casson
Andrew Carnegie Success due to: Delegation of details - Make ablest men partners and profit sharer. Not afraid of depressions - Constant improvements.

"I Give You Yesterday", William R. Watson, 1938, MacMillan Co. of Canada, St. Martins House, Toronto
"The Readers Handbook", by G. Cabham Brewer, London - Chatto & Windus,, 1898, 111 St. Martins, London

"The Romance of the Reaper" - International Harvester Co., Cyrus H. McCormic By Casson

"Pharaohs of V & V1 Dynasties, 3360-3235 B.C." Petrie - "I have made every man like his brother, and I have forbidden that they do evil, (but) it was their hearts which undid that which I have said."

"Beyond the Grand Atlas" by V.C. Scott O'Connor - National Geographic - March 1932 Berbers (Have white skin) is name given to tribesmen of this area - Areas in Atlas are controlled only by the chiefs, to travel there it is necessary to secure their agreement in advance. In winter skis are the best way of getting about. Occupied land is held in controlled by 30,000 legionnaires mostly German nationals. Elgin Marg made by Persall Co. Elgin, Illinois

"What makes People Buy" - McGraw Hill Book Co., Donald A Laird - Disturbance: A speaker is your guest. Help to quiet the rowdy ones.

"The Rhetoric of Aristotle" - Lane Cooper, D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1932 - Men Act From: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire. Self preservation, Sex, Ego, others. Basic Principles of Speech by Sarett & Foster - 1936 Houghton & Mifflin

"The Life & Writings of Abraham Lincoln" - Philip Van Doren Stern, The Modern Library, 1942

"The Quiz & Answer Book" - Frederick J. Haskin, Grosset & Dunlap, N.Y. 1938
Law prohibiting more that two consecutive terms as President.

"Letters to his Son" Lord Chesterfield, 1929 reprint 1935-38, Everyman's Library edited by Ernest Rhys - no. 823
J.M. Dent & Sons Lmt. 10-13 Bedford Street, London, W.C.2, E.P. Dulton & Co. Inc., 285-302 Fourth Ave. N.Y.

'The Orchard Hunters' page 91 by Norman MacDonald 1942 - The Travel Book Club 121 Charing Cross Rd. London. Barbasco, a shrub that [stuns] fish. Four to 6 feet long with slender brown root and tiny pinnate leaves similar to those of the locust tree. spoken of in

"The Big Fun Book" - Jerome S. Meyer, Halcyon House, Garden City, N.Y. 1940-1943

"The Bayous of Louisiana" - Harnett T. Kane - N.Y. 1942, William Morrow & Company
The Way of the Story Teller - Ruth Sawyer, 1944, George G. Harrop & Co. Ltd., 182 High Halborh, London, W.C. 1 How to tell tales and a few selections.

"The Wayfarer" Shirley Seifert - author of Land of “Tomorrow - River Out of Eden”, Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd., 47 Princess Gate, London

"The Worlds Modern Cookbook" - Mabel Claire - World Pub. Co. New York, Cleveland, Ohio 1941 - Recipes and complete meals listed according to time required for preparation. Waterworks Handbook - Flinn, Weston, Bogert - McGraw Hill, New York & London - 1916-1927 - Comprehensive with numerous illustrations.

"How to Use Talking Pictures in Business" - Itcaffe & Christensen, Harper & Bros. 1938 - Several chapters on slide films.

"The Petrified Forest" by Robert E. Sherwood. New York - pocket photo album: Feb 14-24- Setting is a filling station café in the Arizona desert near Black Mesa. Disillusioned intellectual has a gangster bump him off so his insurance policy will enable the Grandfathers daughter to secure a wider life.

"The Ancient World" T.R. Glover, Cambridge - The University Press 1936 - Exceptionally interesting in readable and comprehensive English. Harry Emerson Fasdick 1923, Association Press, 347 Madison Ave, New York 1939

"Watching Birds", James Fisher Magazines - Monthly British Birds Weekly The Field - Country Life - "Handbook of British Birds"

"The Art of Bird Photography" by Eric J. Hosking & Cyril W. Newberry, London - Country Life Ltd. 2-10 Tavistock Street, W.C. 2 1944

"Flight & Aircraft Engineer", Dorse House, Stamford St, London, S.E. 1 - Weekly - one shilling per issue.

"Air Force", 2.00 year Superintendent of documents, Gov. Printing Office, Wash 25, D.C.

"The Story of My Life", Herbert N. Casson, The Efficiency Magazine Publishers, Kent House, 87 Regent St. London W.1.
Cato did not think himself born for himself only, but for all mankind.

"The Lonsdale Library - Vol III Trout Fishing from all Angles", Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd, 195 Shaftisbury Ave. 1933

"Made in England" - Dorothy Hartley, Metheun & Co., Ltd. London, 36 Essex Street, Strand, W.C. 2, Revised edition 1940 - Many illustrations on country handicrafts.

"Economy In House Design" - Edwin Gunn, 1932, -- The Arcitectural Press Ltd, 9 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, S.W. 1

"Photography and the American Scene" - Robert Taft - MacMillan, 1942 First pub 1938 - Early history of photography in U.S. Camp Lib. TT20

"The Techniques of Salesmanship", Charles C. Knight - London, Sir Isacc Pitman & Sons, Ltd. 1937 - Pitman House, Parker Street, Kingsway, London, W.C. 2.

"Low man on a Totem Pole", H. Allen Smith - Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1941 - Events of a New York reporters life. All types of creatures.

"Oliver Wiswell" by Kenneth Roberts - Adventure of Loyalist during American Revolution.

"Rare Adventures and Painefull Peregrinations" by William Lithgow - Edited by B.I. Lawrence from the Traveler's Library, 1928, Jonathan Cape, 30 Bedford Square, London - Adventures of Scotsman encountered during 16 hundreds in traveling thru Europe and Africa.

"Thinking in English Book II", Rachel Salisbury and J. Paul Leonard, Scott, Foreman & Co., New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, 1942. Very good school text book on English composition.

"Horns of a Gant" "(English Title) American volume called "Sun in Capricorn" By Hamilton Basso - Constable & Co. Ltd. London 1943 - Story of country lawyer framed by Louisiana politician into violating the moral code. H. L. was portrayed by Giglo Slade as a non-deplume.

"The Lonsdale Library" - Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd. In 13 or 14 volumes -- covers most branches of sport - very thorough in English branch.

"A treasury of the Familiar", Ralph L. Woods, The MacMillan Co., New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, San Francisco, 1943 - Excellent collection of verse & prose. Especially varied.

"How to Fly" Lieutenant Barrett Studley - U.S. Navy, 1931 - The MacMillan Co. Studley also wrote "Practical Flight Training", A most thorough and comprehensive book. Many pointers are in which apply just as well now.

"The Razor's Edge" - W. Somerset Maugham, 1944, Doubleday Doran & Co. Inc., Garden City, N.Y. Novel of 1st World War flyers who wanted to find God.

"Photography & the American Scene", Robert Taft - 1942, Macmillan Co. N.Y. Early history of photography.

"Riding the Rainbow" - Rosemary Taylor - 1944, Whittlesey House, McGraw Hill Book Co. also "Chicken Every Sunday" - 2500 Jokes for all occasions by Powers Moulton - The New Home Library, 14 West Forty Ninth St. N.Y. N.Y,

"Production and Direction of Radio Programs", by John S. Carlile - New York, 42, Prentice Hall, Inc. 707 Fifth Ave, N.Y - excellent general coverage of radio broadcasting. Many photos well covered chapters on sound effects, studio construction, and mike settings for numerous types of musical groups.

"The way of a Transgressor" - Negley Farson - 1936 - Literary Guild of America - Adventures in England, Russia, Europe, Africa - all over in fact - of the author who was a foreign correspondent. Inside details on Russian Revolution and other events up to 36.

"The Texas Rangers" - Walter Prescott, Webb 1935, Houghton Mifflin Co. - Boston, New York, -- Complete History of the Texas Rangers covering their hundred year existence from 1835 till 1935. Very Complete.

"Retouching Kodachromes", William P. Way, New York City, developed methods of photomontage. Article in March 1945 issue of Popular Photography - written by J. Julius Fanta - Way's address is West 52nd St. N.Y. City. His home is in Floral Park, New York. Curtis transparent color dyes -- $1.20 a set. Strong blues can be reduced by solution of a quarter ounce of sodium hydrosulfite in 8 ounces of water and a few drops of 28% acetic acid. Immerse kodachrome in bath and agitate it for 60 seconds. Inspect every 30 seconds. For a heavy underexposure us a little sodium hydrosulphite.

His faults had made him many enemies, and his virtues many more. p413 Vol 2 History of England Macaulay

"The injustice of war which makes murder not only necessary but meritorious." Letter to Mr. Pope 1717 by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. R. L. Stevenson