18 MAY 1974, page 19

The Colours Of An Old War

Osbert Lancaster Diary of a War Artist Edward Ardizzone (Bodley Head £4.00). Confronted with the facts of war the artist has, until comparatively recently, adopted one or other......

I3low-out

bavid Holden Alive Piers Paul Read (Alison Press/Secker and Warburg 0.00) Finding, as I do in my advancing middle age, growing difficulty in sustaining faith in anythi ng save......

Broker Is Broken

Llew Gardner Maundy Gregory Purveyor of Honours Tom Cullen (The Bodley Head £3.00). To my knowledge I have only met two outand-out rogues and have ever after remained amazed......