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The High Cost Of Dying

Cressida Connolly DEATH COMES FOR PETER PAN I f you're going to die — and, unless you're privy to information which has eluded the rest of humankind, it's safe to say that you......

Autobiography Of A Chip

Bruce Anderson THE ENGLISH TRIBE by Stephen Haseler Macmillan, £40, £14.99, pp. 201 ational identity is a complex historical question, which can usefully be addressed only with......

The Monstrous Anger Of The Guns

Michael Howard PASSCHENDAELE: THE UNTOLD STORY by Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson Yale, £.19.95, pp. 237 T he Battle of Passchendaele opened in high summer on 16 July 1917. The......