16 DECEMBER 1972, page 14

A Congenial Despair

Auberon Waugh There will be a Short Interval Storm Jameson (Harvill £2.25) Miss Jameson's new novel illustrates a variation on the idea that when a man knows he is to be hanged......

On , Thucydides And War Guilt

J. Enoch Powell Origins of the Peloponnesian War G. E. M. de Ste Croix (Duckworth £6.75) This is a very large book to be written about the 'war guilt' of the war which broke out......