Tudor Types
The Great Tudors reprints nineteen essays from an original total of forty-one published under the same title twenty-one years ago. Those con- tributors still alive were given......
Soldiers All
CLASH BY NIGHT—A COMMANDO CHRONICLE By THE WORLD AT WAR 193945. By Edgar Holt. (Putnam, 15s.) THE FORTRESS. By Raleigh Trevelyan. (Collins, 12s. 6d.) THE word Commando often......
Attitudes To Africa
FIVE books, written by a farmer, an anthropolo- gist, a doctor and two novelists offer a selection of African panoramas and a wide diversity of attitudes towards both the land......
Scrambling
THERE are eighteen peaks standing above 26,000 feet; all arc in the Himalaya or Karakoram. Until 1950 all attempts to scale these giants had failed. Since then no fewer than......
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