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Croats Eate Children

Eric Christiansen The Thirty Years War Geoffrey Parker (et al) (Routledge & Kegan Paul £20) Tt seemed to go on for ever. Leathery, lunshaven pikemen traipsing over a fros- ty......

Nags, Shrews And Snools

David Sexton O ne of the great tenets of feminism is that since language is man-made, it Condemns women to silence or to distor- tion — to 'telling it slant' in Tillie Olsen's......