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During The Decline, Before The Fall

S. J. B. Barnish THE ROMAN EMPIRE OF AMMIANUS by John Matthews Duckworth, £35, pp.608 0 n a mountain ridge stands a young staff officer, gathering intelligence; by his side an......

Clinging To The Wreckage

Harold James THE HIDDEN DAMAGE by James Stern Chelsea Press, f17.95, pp. 372 G ermany after the disintegration of a totalitarian state-philosophy, Germany in complete economic......