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Blundering On

Buller's Campaign. By Julian Symons. (Cresset Press, 30s.) Ma. SYMONS is to be congratulated on his account of Buller's campaign, an account which also clarifies in some detail......

Trans-siberian Tragedy

The Fate of Admiral Kolchak. By Peter Fleming. (Hart-Davis, 35s.) FOR many years , after its close the Russian Civil War received little attention from Western scholars; and the......