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Snatching Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory

John Hackett ONE HUNDRED DAYS: THE MEMOIRS OF THE FALKLANDS BATTLE GROUP COMMANDER by Sandy Woodward, with Patrick Robinson HarperCollins, £18, pp. 360 A dmiral Sandy Woodward's......

Glimpses Of Failure

Mark Illis THREE EVENINGS by James Lasdun Secker, f13.99, pp.175 T he title story in James Lasdun's second collection of short stories describes three phases of an uneasy......

Gone

As a landscape can be ravaged, even the balance of the sky shifted on the horizon's brim, at the falling of one tree, so a city quavers, is depopulated by a familiar face, now......