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Failure On Both Sides

Allan Mallinson THE WAR OF ATONEMENT: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE YOM KIPPUR WAR, 1973 by Chaim Herzog Greenhill, £18.99, pp. 320 C haim Herzog, who died last year, belonged to that......

Masters Of Mystification

Douglas Johnson INTELLECTUAL POSTURES by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont Profile, £9.99, pp. 280 A lan Sokal is Professor of Physics at New York University, but his worldly fame......

Upping The Case

Tom Utley A HARD TIME TO BE A FATHER by Fay Weldon Flamingo, £12.99, pp. 262 T hese 19 short stories are well written and beautifully constructed, and most have interesting and......