5 JULY 1963, page 26

Ostfront

The Siege of Leningrad. By Leon Goure. (Stanford University Press. and O.U.P., 42s.) Victims and Heroes. By Konstantin Simonov. (Hutchinson, 30s.) WHICH was the decisive land......

Bootlegging

The Stones, of Florence. By Mary McCarthy. (Heinemann, 18s.) How desirable is a new, cheaper (but still nol cheap) edition of Mary McCarthy's Stones of Florence? I first read......