10 MAY 1963, page 20

Home Run Genius. By Patrick Dennis. (barker, 18s.) The Hotel

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Freedom's Outpost

THE value of this post-war history of Berlin, whose unhappily chosen title should not put readers off, is its objectivity, which is sometimes startling and always lucid. To......