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James Hughes-Onslow
Animal Liberation: Towards an End to Man's Inhumanity to Animals Peter Singer (Thorson £4.95) This book has been hailed as the anti" vivisectionist and vegetarian Bible but Singer, a professor of philosophy and bioethics, is more concerned with the broader issue of tyranoY• Diana Cooper Philip Ziegler (Penguin £2.50) The other Lady Diana, the one who nearly became Princess of. Wales but, more interestingly, mar- ried Duff Cooper instead. Ziegler's page of acknowledgements offers a foretaste of the ex- traordinary cast of characters who feature here. The . Kaiser's Battle Martin Middlebrook (Penguin £4.95) For this account of a single day in the German Spring Offensive on the Western Front in March 1918 the author has the help of 518 British and 129 German survivors. Old men s memories may not always be reliable, he con- fesses, but this was a day they didn't forget. Travels with Myself and Another Martha Gellhorn (Eland £3.95) All travellers revel in their disasters and this author has had more than her share of sticky situations in Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Russia' get- ting worse. Jung:note for the Eighties: things are get- Jung: Selected Writings introduced by Anthoq Storr (Fontana £3.95) Few people are prePareu distillation. Common.of Jung's prolific writing, so here is 3 la Common Crisis: The Brandt Commission 1983 (Pan £1.95) Since the main North-South report came out in 1980 the world depression has widen- ed the gap between rich and Poor nations Shorter and sharper than the original, Brandt 83 offers new proposals for a worsening situation. The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Hisi°,11, 1789-1945 (second edition) Alan Palmer (E2-5w d- Twenty-one years after it first appeared, this tionary of people, places and events now cicon" en tains 100 new entries and existing ones have be ittpe b updated. cover . cAonaridsatyosssttuedryniynot a substitute for it' the The Tomb of Tutankhamen Howard Carter (Century £4.95) The archaeologist's own account of his dramatic discovery in 1922 was firscit published in three volumes between 1923 ati, esm-, 1933. `A rare book in which a specialist cessfully transmits the enthusiasm of a lifetime says John Romer in his introduction.
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