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Collaboration

Richard Cobb The Youth of Vichy France W. D. Halls (Clarendon Press pp. 492, /20) The Vichy period of French history has long exercised a sort of fascination to Anglo-Saxon......

A Bumpy Ride

Eric Christiansen An English Journey Richard West (Chatt( Windus pp.196, £8.50) Does it happen to every journalist, soone or later? After ten, or 20 or 30 years spell canning......