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Show Powerful Novel of Military Desegregation The transformation of the armed forces from a totally scfireated to a fullv iiuc-graled institution began under the Truman desegregation order of 1948. The President followed his edict by setting up a committee to pursue the implementation imple-mentation of equal treatment and opportunity for armed forces personnel. By 1950, the army had abolished its quota system, and had begun to integrate some military training camps. a-. MOVER, by James Drought, a newly released AVON paperback, pa-perback, is an electrifying, fact-thro ugh - fiction novel based on events concerning the first military camp to be chosen for desegregation. The novel is particularly timely in the light of our integrated armed forces now serving in Vietnam. On his arrival at Fort Bragg during the Korean War, Major Bell Komney, a deeply etched protagonist, is given the onerous task of in-, in-, -tegrating its prison stockades. Until he took over, the main post had been used for whites, while the annex was used for Negroes. "With the nation's eyes and those of Time Magazine upon us," Komney accepts his assignment. assign-ment. In the ensuing months, the epic of white man and black is volatile and shattering. So is Komney's involvement with Jena, the recently widowed daughter of the Post Commander, Com-mander, General Colgore . . . and Mrs. Colgore's hate and .contempt for him. Portraits of Captain Georgo Bailey, who lived life to the hilt . . . , Suzy, who brought out the worst in men . . . and Colonel Carl Striker, who lived by the war books, are skillfully brushed in. As the gripping novel whirls to its inevitable conclusion, con-clusion, the reader will not James Drought soon forget MOVER as a modern tragedy about a powerful pow-erful American who is defeated de-feated by society. A previous book, "The Gypsy . Moths", by James Drought, accumulated an enormous en-ormous batch of favorable reviews re-views in Europe this summer. Many agreed that the novel ranked Drought with Ernest Hemingway in the depiction of the death-defying performer's perform-er's art. However, Drought is a prolific writer, with eight top-selling titles to date. Many critics in America consider con-sider MOVER to be his greatest great-est work. The brilliant British Brit-ish critic-author Colin Wilson claims, "Drought is the most important and dynamic figure fig-ure on the American scene." |