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Books

Purged by terror Colin Welch THE PEOPLE'S ANGER: JUSTICE AND REVENGE IN POST- LIBERATION FRANCE by Herbert R. Lottman Hutchinson, £12.95 T wo photographs on the dust-jacket of......

In Practice But Not In Theory

Tony Osman CHINA: LAND OF DISCOVERY by Robert K. K. Temple Patrick Stephens. £12.95 W e all know about gunpowder and the magnetic compass: most people know about paper and the......