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Drab Monster In An Exotic Setting

Charles Maclean LAST OF THE PIRATES: THE SEARCH FOR BOB DENARD by Samantha Weinberg Cape, £16.99, pp. 272 T he appeal of this book would seem almost irresistible to those of us......

In The Far-flung Outposts Of War, The Last Of The

paladins Simon Courtauld IRREGULAR REGULAR by David Smiley Michael Russell, f15.95, pp. 218 T hough not mentioned by David Smiley in his account of wartime operations in......