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Filling The Gaps

TIBOR SZAMUELY The View from Lenin Hills William Taubman (Hamish Hamilton 30s) Russian Peasants and Soviet Power M. Lewin (Allen and Unwin 70s) Despite the vast volume of......

Weimar Culture : The Outsider As Insider Peter Gay (seeker

and Warburg 50s) Prelude to Hitler ELIZABETH WISKEMANN This book is a fascinating study for anyone with any experience of the Weimar period, although one cannot help asking......

Where To Go

FRANCIS WATSON Icelandic Journals William Morris (Centaur Press 126s) The travelling writer' is a somewhat different animal from the writing traveller. Of the two volumes......