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In The Teeth Of Defeat

Philip Warner THE OXFORD BOOK OF MILITARY ANECDOTES edited by Max Hastings Oxford University Press, £9.50 T o compile a readable and representa- tive anthology of military......

Modern Hardy Country

Richard Cobb RED HERRINGS: A SIMON BOGNOR MYSTERY by Tim Heald Macmillan, £7.50 N o doubt all this has something to do with 'baying been born and educated in Dorset', a......