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Alas Poor Country; Almost Afraid To Know Itself

Noel Malcolm THE RISE AND FALL OF NICO- LAE AND ELENA CEAUSESCU by Mark Almond Chapmans, f18, pp. 320 A , happy families are alike, Tolstoy tells us, but an unhappy family is......

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H. K. Prescott WALTER HAMILTON: A PORTRAIT edited by Donald Wright James & James, 174.95, pp. 240 I f Walter could have read this book, how delighted he would have been by its......