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Lonely In A Crowd

Norman Stone THE TORCH TN MY EAR by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel Deutsch, £13,95, pp.372 V ienna is the loneliest and most de- pressing city in Europe. Those......

Where War Came Dropping Right On Time

Patrick Leigh Fermor CRETE 1941 EYEWITNESSED by Costas Hadjipateras and Maria Fafalios, Evstathiadis Group, £5, pp.320 T he appearance of this book, 50 years after the outbreak......