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Imperial Sickness

J. ENOCH POWELL The Fall of the British Empire 1918-1968 Colin Cross (Hodder and Stoughton 55s) The British Empire was an historical accident, a by-product of the first contacts......

Early Americans

RICHARD BRETT-SMITH The History of the United States John A. Garraty (Allen Lane the Penguin Press 95s) The Great Revolt and its Leaders Carleton Beals (Abelard-Schuman 40s) The......

Two Survivors

DAVID WILLIAMS Disenchantment C. E. Montague (MacGibbon and Kee 30s) A Life Apart Alan Thomas (Gollancz 28s) These two books, both absorbing in their different ways, have this......