17 AUGUST 1974, page 20

Review Of Books

Richard Luckett on re-emphasising Hardy's greatness "I used once to say that I shouldn't have known he was a great novelist if I hadn't been told. After sufficiently dogged......

Trooping To Slaughter

George Gale War And Politics Bernard Brodie (Cassell £3.50) The idea of this book, central and simple and borrowed from Clausewitz as we are told, is "that the question of why......