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Very True, But Not Very New

Geoffrey Wheatcroft THE LARGER EVILS by W.J. West Canongate Press, £14.95, pp.207 D espite his disarming confession that `I have never been able to dislike Hitler . . . the fact......

A Linguist, A Stylist, But Words Failed Him

Richard Lamb FITZROY MACLEAN by Frank McLynn John Murray, £25, pp. 418 f ascinating history comes out of this pen- etrating biography of the intelligent and dashing Fitzroy......