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Waiting For The Call

Alan Watkins ALAN CLARK, DIARIES: INTO POLITICS edited by Ion Trewin Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 389 W hen the first (chronologically the second) volume of Alan Clark's diaries came......

In The Grip Of The Ice

M. R. D. Foot ENDURANCE by Alfred Lansing Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 278 THE ICE MASTER by Jennifer Niven Macmillan, £16.99, pp. 449 T hese are two tremendous adventure stories, which......

Down But Not Under

Michael Davie AUSTRALIA: A BIOGRAPHY OF A NATION by Philip Knightley Cape, 120, pp. 372 h e late Senator Fulbright said, 'It is when you leave your country that you really learn......