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Some Lives

Life is a Four - Letter Word (Cassell, 42s.) is the first, long (530 - odd pages) instalment of Nicholas Monsarrat's autobiography. It is at once leisurely and impassioned,......

Men At Arms

Russell's Despatches from the Crimea 1854-56. Edited and introduced by Nicolas Bentley. (Andre Deutsch, 50s.) THE Crimean War still holds an extraordinary fascination.......

Another Troy

By DAVID REES Another Troy must rise and set, Another lineage feed the crow, Another Argo's painted prow Drive to a flashier bauble yet W. B. YEATS, Two Songs from a Play VER a......