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Failed Apocalypse

The Fall of Crete. By Alan Clark. (Blond, 25s.) THE paratroops whom Hitler used to seize Crete and whom Goering hoped would be able to leapfrog into Cyprus, Suez and points east......

Indi Rect Speech Uneasy Lies The Head. By King Hussein Of

Jor- dan. (Heinemann, 30s.) MIDWAY through Muriel Spark's Ballad of Peck- ham Rye, her daemonic Scots arts graduate , Dougal Douglas, compiles a list 3f phrases suit - able for......

The Battle Of India

Tnis admirable description of the fighting on the North-Eastern Frontier in the war against Japan concentrates on the battle for Imphal in the spring and summer of 1944. The......