New Releases by MacKinlay Kantor

A scoutmaster''s forty years of service in a small Iowa town.

"The men who flew the planes knew it was a war. behind the lines in Japan, the women know it too- flier'' wives and civilians, always waiting, always greedily and hungrily waiting for the men. And in the teeming Tokyo suburbs, the sing-song girls in the exotic gardens of Kumbawa- they knew it too. Here is a powerful and eye-opening story of American soldiers, their wives- and their women, a novel of conflict and passion by the author of Signal Thirty-two" -- Back cover.

Small-town life in Iowa in the years before the World War.

Father recalls events in life of his son, a sailor killed in action in the Pacific.

Thomas always pretended his favorite menu was creamed angleworms on toast. Then one day when he also pretended he was sick enough to miss school, his family thought he deserved whatever he wanted for lunch.

An old school janitor reviews his past in relation to the many pupils he has known.

A wealthy man''s passion for restoring flocks of passenger pigeons to America.

"The Chicago underworld." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation