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A Dialogue Between God And An Atheist

Thick fog in the head, mucus filling the nostrils, Fumes rising, steaming: blinding the sodden brain. If only a wind, out of the sterile sky, Would empty everything, would clear......

Hitler, The Gambler And Dupe

Andrei Navrozov STALIN'S WAR by Ernst Topitsch Fourth Estate, £12.95 h e conventional Western view of events leading to the outbreak of the second world war, with Hitler as its......

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......