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Poor Man, Rich Man, Thief, Beggar-man?

Piers Paul Read ODD MAN OUT by Ronald Biggs Bloomsbury, f14.99, pp. 279 O f the 14 books I have written over the past 27 years, the only one I now regret is The Train Robbers,......

Disappearing In A Puff Of Smoke

Nigel Spivey CIGARETTES ARE SUBLIME by Richard Klein Duke University Press, £19.95, pp. 210 H ypocrisy, and in particular American political hypocrisy, is rightfully exposed by......

Franklin And Nashville: 1864 These Tracks Of Blood Over...

frozen ruts Were made by unshod men, Hood's threadbare remnant. Watch them, then, Stumble across the scrub, as from the heights Others are watching: in those piled redoubts......