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Books

Beating the system Richard West ALAN PATON: A BIOGRAPHY by Peter F. Alexander OUP, £25, pp. 510 A lan Paton's novel Cry, the Beloved Country, published in 1948, the year that......

John The Baptist At The Front

Hugh Cecil ARMAGEDDON REVISITED: A WORLD WAR I JOURNAL by Amos N. Wilder Yale, £17.95, pp. 168 T his is no run-of-the-mill war memoir, but the work of a remarkable man, Amos......