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Rumbling In The Jungle

Harriet Waugh STRANGE GODS by John Cornwell Simon & Schuster, f14.99, pp. 262 J ohn Cornwell is probably best known for A Thief in the Night and Earth to Earth, but he is also a......

Rightly Detained, But For Too Long

John Grigg IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE ODIOUS by A. W. Brian Simpson Clarendon, £35, pp. 464 A t the beginning of the second world war emergency legislation was passed, empowering the......