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THE WAY out A Kiwi Escapes in Italy By MALCOLM J. MASON: PRICE 14/6. Just published, The Way Out promises to be the most remarkable story written by any New Zealander about his war experiences. Captain Mason tells of his three escapes from Italian camps. His nine months wanderings in Italy , the kindnesses he received from peasants, hunger and ever recurring alarms about Germans in the neighbourhood, the fear of recapture must all be part of the experience of many other Kiwis. Mason writes simply, without affectation, using (where print- able) the language of a typical New Zealand soldier. His book is full of vivid incident, humour and lively characters, whether Italians, or Germans or other escaping prisoners met on the Italian roads of 1943 The Way Out is beautifully printed and iilustrated with line drawings_ THIS NEW ZEALAND By F L: W. WOOd. PRICE 5/- Professor Wood has the unusual ability to write a book at once authoritative and popular. This New Zealand written for America and recently reprinted here is a valuable and comprehensive survey of our history, economics, politics and social life; It is a book that repays everyone's reading; and to send abroad too, to anyone who wants to know what New Zealand is really like, it has no equal: PAUL'S BOOK ARCADE HAMILTON PUBLISHERS mitRe PEAK For FIRM POUNDATIONS 0f prudent Estate management ~Appoint The PUBLIC TRUSTBB 43.10

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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 375, 30 August 1946, Page 10

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Page 10 Advertisement 1 New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 375, 30 August 1946, Page 10

Page 10 Advertisement 1 New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 375, 30 August 1946, Page 10

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