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Remember Greece. By Dilys Powell. (Hodder and Stoughton. 75.
MISS POWELL, who is the film-critic of the Sunday Times, whose late husband was Director of the British School Archaeology at Athens, has written an agreeable, rather c compounded, book. A personal chapter, describing how she it of the Russo-German agreement of August, 1939, on the i of Icaria, and left Athens just before war was declared, is folio by six Others devoted to the approach of war, the course of war, a description of Athens, a description of Greece gene a description of the islands and the story of Greece from sixth century B.c. to 1941 compacted, into 22 pages. It mostly pleasant guide-book, lightened by a welcome Pe touch, and provides a useful outline sketch of Greece at moment when that country has won the admiration of the W
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