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How the land war was won Max Hastings T he men fighting the Falklands war perceived its essential absurdity — the nonsense of expending blood and treasure for a barren cluster......

One-legged Super-tramp

Peter Quennell O sbert Sitwell has told us, among his memories of literary London, how, if W. H. Davies visited him at his pleasant house in Chelsea, although the middle- aged......