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A System Without Rules

Robert Taylor CLASSES AND CULTURES, ENGLAND 1918-1951 by Ross McKibbin OUP, £25, pp. 562 T his often brilliant but frustrating book provides a graphic portrait of the social......

The Mother Of All Battles

Nigel Nicolson STALINGRAD by Anthony Beevor Viking, £25, pp. 494 A German soldier in Stalingrad, sur- veying the misery around him, was heard to mutter, They must never know at......