This is Volume III of the author's "Secret History of the War" and in a rough sort of way is devoted to the events of 1943. As in the previous two volumes, Mr. Root's narrative is a combination of well-known facts, canny surmises and would-be "inside stuff." He does not try to be comprehensive or to conform to a rigidly logical order of treatment. How much of his story will stand up, only the passage of time can tell.