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Portrait Of A Great General

Lord Wavell (1883-1941) : A Military Biography. By Major-General R. J. Collins. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal J. C. Smuts. (Hodder and Stoughton. 30s.) THERE is no need to......

Fresh Air

Natural History in the Highlands and Islands. By F. Fraser Darling. (Collins. 16s.) And Clouds Flying. By Ian Pitman, with Illustrations by Peter Scott. (Faber and Faber. 15s.)......

Portuguese History

A HISTORY of Portugal in English was wanted. Apart from the book by Morse Stephens, now over fifty years old, and Sir George Young's amusing but eccentric volume (understandably......