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How We Got Here

Raymond Carr HOPE AND GLORY: BRITAIN, 1900-1990 by Peter Clarke Allen Lane, £25, pp. 464 T he present generation enjoys at least One advantage enjoyed by no previous gen-......

Through A Lens Coolly

Francis King PRIVATE CONFESSIONS by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Joan Tate Harvig £8.99, pp. 120 E very novel has in it some element, however vestigial, of autobiography, and......