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Books Of The Day

Poet and Patriot W. B. Yeats (1865-1939). By Joseph Hone. (Macmillan. 255.) THE art of biography had sunk very low since the last war. On the one hand there was the novelistic......

Modern Warfare

Modern Warfare : Its Character and Its Problems. By Gene W. Sikorski. (Hutchinson. 8s. 6d.) • The Great Offensive : The Strategy of Coalition Warfare. Max Werner. (Gollancz. 7s.......