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New Novels

Strange capers Maurice CAPITANCHIK Three Years to Play Colin MacInnaa (Mac- Gibbon 30s) A Cry of Crickets Brian Glanville (Seeker 35s) Trespasses Paul Bailey (Cape 25s) A Pagan......

History In The Welfare State

GEOFFREY BARRACLOUGH The Nature of History Arthur Marwick (Macmillan 50s) Not so long ago it was usual for historians, particularly English historians, to assert with pride that......