COMMAND THE MORNING

Revolving about two American couples whose lives become irrevocably involved with man's struggle for the secrets of the atom, this book builds with intensity from the early experimental days up to the disaster at Hiroshima. In Pearl Buck's revelation of how the struggle both toward and away from the destructive atom affects the emotional lives of the protagonists, she also succeeds admirably in compassing the scientific aspects of her subject. A penetrating and timely novel.