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Up The Airy Mountain, Down The Rushy Glen...

Raymond Carr IN THE PINK by Caroline Blackwood Bloomsbury, £11.95 W hen I was taken into the Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford after a hunting accident the surgeon greeted me thus:......

Memoirs Of A Deserter

Roy Fuller ARGUMENT OF KINGS by Vernon Scannell Robson Books, £10.95 I n North Africa in 1943, Vernon Scan- nell, then a private in the Gordon High- landers (transferred from......