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His Own Best Friend And Severest Critic

Andro Linklater AVOWED INTENT: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Lord Longford Little, Brown, £18.99, pp. 211 he last time I saw Lord Longford, he was in a pulpit, preparing to give the......

The Last Hero (for Some)

Basil Davidson THESIGER by Michael Asher Viking, £20, pp. 582 I t strikes me on reading this excellent biography that Wilfred Thesiger has been the kind of strange and......