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The Thompson Gun

Vietnam. Edited by Marvin E. Gettleman. (Pen- guin Special, 8s. 6d.) 'PEOPLE'S war' or 'people's liberation war' are the Communist names applied to a novel form of warfare which......

Well-trodden Corridors

The Home Patch. By Alun Richards. (Michael Joseph, 21s.) THE title of Mr Cooper's new novel, Memoirs of a New Man, suggests C. P. Snow's The New Men and is, indeed, about that......