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The Horror Of War Through The Eyes Of A Girl

Simon Courtauld THE CHANCES OF DEATH: A DIARY OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR by Priscilla Scott-Ellis Michael Russell, £17.95, pp. 240 T he poet Edward Thomas, in the diary that he......

History With Many Cunning Passages

Dominic Lieven THE BLACK SEA by Neal Ascherson Cape, £17.99, pp. 306 I read this book looking out of my win- dow at - a Japanese summer storm. My neighbour's roof sagged under......