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Arms And The Woman

Teresa Waugh THE LAST THING HE WANTED by Joan Didion Flamingo, £15.99, pp. 227 T o those who are unused to reading very much American literature, the open- ing few pages of Joan......

Horses And Donkeys

Allan Mallinson A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH CAVALRY, 1816-1919, VOLUME VIII by the Marquess of Anglesey Leo Cooper, £40, pp. 397 A lan Clark shares, or did, Luden- dorff's opinion......