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The Victory Went To Champagne

Richard Lamb THE DUEL: HITLER vs. CHURCHILL 10 May-31 July 1940 by John Lukacs The Bodley Head, £14.99, pp.275 P rofessor Lukacs analyses the 80 traumatic first days of......

The Doubts Of A Master

Fiona Maddocks MUSIC SOUNDED OUT by Alfred Brendel Robson Books, £16.95, pp.266 W e had boarded the same London- bound train. He was alone, unremarkable in a black macintosh,......