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Communism And Other Disasters

Adam Zamoyski VOLCANO AND MIRACLE: A SELECTION OF FICTION AND NON-FICTION FROM `THE JOURNAL WRITTEN AT NIGHT' by Gustaw Herling, selected and translated by Ronald Strom Viking......

Men Impressing Men

Peter J. M. Wayne AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A MURDERER by Hugh Collins Macmillan, £15.99, pp. 202 N early 20 years ago, I was a direction - less young prisoner serving a 12-month......