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Inquest

C. M. Woodhouse Operation Mercury: the Battle for Crete, 1941 Tony Simpson (Hodder and Stoughton pp 316, £8.50) In the battle for Crete, as perhaps in most battles, it was......

Old Stager

Hugh Massingberd Flora Kenneth Barrow (Heinemann pp.242, £12.50) This summer I met a pretty girl from Palmer's Green with a slight look of the delectable Sheena Easton, who told......