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A Brave Man Beneath The Heel Of History

Liliana Brisby CROWN OF THORNS: THE REIGN OF KING BORIS III OF BULGARIA 1918-1943 by Stephane Groueff Madison Books, £19.50 A n older generation of English read- ers may dimly......

The Greatest Sculptor Of His Time

Arnold Goodman THE LIFE OF HENRY MOORE by Roger Berthoud Faber, £14.95 H enry Moore was not kind to biog- raphers. Outside his artistic career and the manifestations of genius,......

Takeover

In the bottom shed, a Guerlain bottle of rare Capacity, still briefly perfumed, across Evaporating decades, and a low chair Crippled with nursing, solaced in swaddling moss,......