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If Only They Had Listened

Philip Warner MONTY: THE FIELD-MARSHAL 1944-1975 by Nigel Hamilton Hamish Hamilton, £15 W hatever his "mental disturb- ances", his cocksure ego, his irksome van- ity, his......

A Gift For Happiness

Peter Quennell THE CHILDREN OF THE SOULS: A TRAGEDY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR by Jeanne MacKenzie Chatto & Windus, £14.95 T he first 14 years of the present century are not an......