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The Trouble With Solzhenitsyn

Ronald Hingley The Gulag Archipelago. Alexander SolzhenitYri (Collins and Harvill Press £3.00) ,ihis is the first new work of Solzhenitsyn's to k ". Published since his recent......

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JOHN NASH by John Summerson, Allen & Unwin. Box THE BRIDGES OF BRITAIN by Eric de Mare (Batsford 1954). Bell 32 Sutherland Place, London, W.2. YEARS OF CHILDHOOD by Aksakoff. C.......

Passage From India

Francis King A Matter of Honour Philip Mason (Cape The two-hundred-year history of the India° Army from 1746 to 1947 poses two Mal n t r enigmas. Firstly, how did it come about......