2 APRIL 1983, page 24

Know Your Trees

John Jolliffe The Easy Way to Tree Recognition John Kilbracken (Kingfisher Books £3.50) w hen the elms in Britain began to die one by one in 1972, local authorities exhorted......

Orcadian

Miranda Seymour Andrina and other stories George Mackay Brown (Chatto & Windus £7.50) Tt must be ten years since I first read Green voe, a funny, moving and wonder - fully......

Second Best

Max Hastings And We Shall Shock Them: The British Army in World War II David Fraser (Hodder £12.95) rr he outstanding fighting force of the 1 Second World War was the German......