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Retrenchment

Care? Of course I care! . . . Only less. Something less now. It's the same way, I would guess, with the trees, maple and oak (taking them year by year) losing their leaves. They......

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......

Climb Every Mountain Till You Find Your Dream

Philip Glazebrook AT HOME IN THE HIMALAYAS by Christina Noble Collins, £15, pp. 210 F rom the opening pages of this book, which describe Miss Noble's first encoun- ter with the......