11 DECEMBER 1982, page 22

A Plague On Both Your Houses

A. L. Rowse The Royalist War Effort, 1642-1646 R. Hutton (Longman £12) A great deal of historical writing still goes into the Civil War and its origins, much of it from the......

Put Out More Flags

Philip Warner The Phony War 1939-1940 Tom Shachtman (Harper & Row £8.95) T he eight months between the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and their invasion of France......