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Commissars In Uniform

The Soviet High Command, 1918-1941. By J° 113 Erickson. (Macmillan, 84s.) WHAT is the special element which pervades Soviet military studies, making them so differen t from......

True Observation

A Hong Kong House. By Edmund Blunden. (Collins, 21s.) The Swans of Berwick. By Sidney Tremayne. (Chatto and Windus:Hogarth Press, 10s. 6d.) WHETHER about individual poems or......