3 JANUARY 1970, page 31

Eastward Ho!

ELIE KEDOURIE The British in the Middle East Sarah Searight (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 70s) Mrs Searight's book forms part of a series on the 'Social History of the British......

Black Shirts

DONALD McLACHLAN The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS Heinz Hahne translated by Richard Barry (Seeker and Warburg 90s) Now that we have among us, in the......

Why Spy?

TIBOR SZAMUELY Our Own People Elisabeth K. Poretsky touP 42s) The Red Orchestra Gilles Perrault (Barker 55s) Few Soviet spy stories have happy end- ings. '1 here are only two......