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The High Cost Of Caution

Richard Lamb THE REPUBLIC IN DANGER: GENERAL MAURICE GAMELIN AND THE POLITICS OF FRENCH DEFENCE 1933-1940 by Martin Alexander CUP, £60, pp. 573 R ecently biographies have been......

Ballet-master Of The Phonemes

Hilary Corke A MOUTHFUL OF AIR by Anthony Burgess Hutchinson, £17.99, pp. 347 P rofessional linguologists tend to know everything about language except how to use it. They can......