10 MAY 1997, page 43

How Beautifully They Still Stand

Mark Girouard THE FALL AND RISE OF THE STATELY HOME by Peter Mandler Yale, £25, pp. 622 Here we are and here we have got to stay, mouldering on in this blasted barrack of a......

The Clash Of Software

Allan Mallinson DRAGONSTRIKE: THE MILLENNIUM WAR by Humphrey Hawksley and Simon Holberton Sidgwick, £16.99, pp. 368 T he editor of this magazine, writing in the Daily Telegraph......