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Slow Decline

P. J. Kavanagh Diaries 1920-1922 Siegfried Sassoon ed. Rupert Hart-Davis (Faber pp. 304, £9.95) Siegfried Sassoon, as these diaries show, finished up after the First World War......

Collaboration

Richard Cobb The Youth of Vichy France W. D. Halls (Clarendon Press pp. 492, /20) The Vichy period of French history has long exercised a sort of fascination to Anglo-Saxon......