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Sandbags And Champagne

Foil fifty-five hot, smelly, frightened and muddle- headed days in the summer of 1900 the eleven foreign legations irk Peking were beleaguered by an inefficient rabble of cruel,......

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Hands off Smith By EVELYN WAUGH 7 - The Dictionary of National Biography with / all its few defects is an essential part of the writer's professional equipment. It is also a......

Business Faces

Brotherhood of Evil : The Mafia. By Frederic Sondern. (Gollancz, 21s.) V t ej f of it A. 1- st . is rt "I r. (I. n- or )y a ' it- n- eeM :nr) be ON the 14th November, 1957,......