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Spied Piper

Patrick Skene Catling Piper's Places Betjeman Country Frank Delaney (Hodder £8.95) The theme of Richard Ingrams's respect- fully affectionate biography of John Piper, Companion......

Master Of The Field

John Keegan Monty, Master of the Battlefield 1942-44 Nigel Hamilton (Hamish Hamilton £12.95) he second volume of the offi c i a l 1 biography of Field-Marshal Mont- gomery......

Books

Death of a scholar Peter Levi Collected Essays Colin Macleod (Clarendon Press £20) C olin Macleod died by suicide in a bliz- zard just before Christmas in 1981. He was only 38,......