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A Hook For Leviathan

Nimrod Smith. By Alan Wykes. (Hamish Hamil- ton, 21s.) LIKE an animal-hunting book to have something eccentric about it, a point of view that is peculiar. Shark for Sale has......

Moscow Confidential

Power and Polley in the USSR. By Robert Conquest. (Macmillan, 35S.) NEVER since 1917 has there been any lack of books on Russia. But until the end of the 1940s they were mostly......