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At The Least Half A Hero

A. N. Wilson KARL MARX by Francis Wheen Fourth Estate, £20, pp. 431 T his is a magnificently lively, compul- sively readable book about a man who was, by any standards, of huge......

A Damned Messy Business

Giles Foden THE NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM BOOK OF THE BOER WAR by Field Marshal Lord Carver Sidgwick, £25, pp. 280 T h e spectacle of the writing general is not always a happy one.......