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The Great French Compliment

George Gale French and Germans, Germans and French Richard Cobb (University Press of New England £10.95) H ere we have an odd and idiosyncratic book indeed: an account of France......

This Land Of Saints

Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd The Irish in Ireland Constantine FitzGibbon (David & Charles £10.95) ' Irish Journal Heinrich Boll (Seeker & Warburg £7.95) Tt has often been said......