3 APRIL 1953, page 20

Captor And Captive

AT first sight this book looks like just another story of escape in war- time. The dust-cover seems designed to suggest as much, and very effective it is. So do the end-papers,......

Post-war And Pre-war

MR. BUTLER'S massive volume of nearly 1,300 pages, together with seven excellent maps, deals first with the tortuous negotiations concerning the settlement in the Adriatic, the......

Shelley. At Lerici

Shelley : The Last Phase. By Ivan Roe. Illustrated. (Hutchinson. 18s.) THE last sixty-nine days in the life of Shelley, which form the central area in Mr. Roe's book although he......