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Hervey Remounts

his horse Tom Pocock THE SABRE'S EDGE by Allan Mallinson Bantam, £16.99, pp. 320, ISBN 0593047281 T hose who prefer their history straight may look askance at the historical......

He Who Would Be King

Jonathan Cecil PLAYING LEAR by Oliver Ford Davies NHB, £14.99, pp. 211, ISBN 1854596985 A sked who was the greatest French poet Andre Gide famously replied, 'Victor Hugo,......