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Forsyth Saga

AUBERON WAUGH The Biafra Story Frederick Forsyth (Pen- guin 6s) There are not many things about the Biafran war to make anyone particularly proud of being English, but even the......

Going Down

JOHN HIGGINS Reflections on a Sinking Ship Gore Vidal (Heinemann 63s) In one of the essays in his new collection, Reflections on a Sinking Ship, Gore Vidal comments that the......

Numb And Vague

JOHN JULIUS NORWICH The Etruscans and the Survival of Etruria Christopher Hampton (Gollancz 42s) 'Why', runs one of the questions in a 1066 and All That examination paper, 'are......