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The Inspiration For Brigadier Gerard

Allan Mallinson THE EXPLOITS OF BARON DE MARBOT edited by Christopher Summerville Constable, f10.99, pp. 318 T he French are not as other soldiers. The Gallic shrug and 'c'est......

Books

Her resistance was low Patrick Marnham MARGUERITE DURAS by Laure Adler Gollancz, £25, pp. 424 I n 1984 the writer and film director Marguerite Duras, celebrated for the......