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A Trolley-load Of Questions

Ian Ousby THE PITY OF WAR by Niall Ferguson Allen Lane, £18.99, pp. 622 T his book takes its title from a line in Wilfred Owen's poem 'Strange Meeting', in which Owen......

The Importance Or Otherwise Of Cricket

David Gilmour THE ENGLISH by Jeremy Paxman Michael Joseph, f20, pp. 320 T he English have enjoyed a long tradi- tion of puzzling foreigners, both their detractors and their......