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More July Titles: Yeager: An Autobiography (Bantam, $17.95), by General Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos, is interesting both as narrative and as a portrait of the World War II combat ace who went on to become America’s number-one test pilot, though he modestly describes his chief assets as superb eyesight, great mechanical aptitude, and a strong disinclination toward getting killed.

With Haile Selassie’s War: The Italian-Ethiopian Campaign, 1935-1941 (Random House, $24.95), Anthony Mockler may well have contributed the definitive account of Mussolini’s follow-up to the Italians’ 1896 attempt to conquer Ethiopia. . . . The Root: The Marines in Beirut, August 1982-February 1984 (Harcourt Brace, $19.95), by Eric Hammel, describes the year and a half the Marines spent in Lebanon, during which they “were de-clawed and placed in a static position with no clear mandate nor any means of eluding the wishes of a maniacal anti-American regime.”

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More July Titles: Yeager: An Autobiography (Bantam, $17.95), by General Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos, is interesting both as narrative and as a portrait of the World War II combat ace who went on to become America’s number-one test pilot, though he modestly describes his chief assets as superb eyesight, great mechanical aptitude, and a strong disinclination toward getting killed.

With Haile Selassie’s War: The Italian-Ethiopian Campaign, 1935-1941 (Random House, $24.95), Anthony Mockler may well have contributed the definitive account of Mussolini’s follow-up to the Italians’ 1896 attempt to conquer Ethiopia. . . . The Root: The Marines in Beirut, August 1982-February 1984 (Harcourt Brace, $19.95), by Eric Hammel, describes the year and a half the Marines spent in Lebanon, during which they “were de-clawed and placed in a static position with no clear mandate nor any means of eluding the wishes of a maniacal anti-American regime.”