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Middle East To India

The Campaigns of Wavell, 1939-1943. By Robert Woollcombe. (Cassell, 21s.) WA\ LLL was fortunate in that at the outset his opponents were Italians, and unfortunate in that......

Dead Souls

Smolensk Under Soviet Rule. By Merle Fainsod. (Macmillan, '50s.) THE Smolensk Archive, a job lot of 200,000 pages from the records of a Soviet province, was re- moved by the......