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Books

Great Prehistorian By GLYN DAN IEL I !■1 the middle of the last war, disillusioned by its futility, disheartened by its destruction, and c onvinced that, whatever the outcome,......

A Place In The Sun

ON January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of the Reich by Marshal von Hinden- burg. From that date the former Austrian un- employed labourer dominated the......

Eight Mad Americans

THE 'square pegs' are eight American eccentrics of the nineteenth century, all intolerable people to deal with, but admirable in their variously cranky ways. One sympathises......