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Laughter With Some Intermissions

Bevis Hillier J n October, jiffy bags piled up on my doorstep like sandbags around Whitehall in the Blitz. They were full of little books — potential stockingfillers — from the......

The Original Essex Man

Ian Thomson HAWKWOOD: THE DIABOLICAL ENGLISHMAN by Frances Stonor Saunders Faber, £17.99, pp. 366, ISBN057121908X £15.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 T he boil and hiss of......