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The Motorist's Bedside Book. Edited by Anthony Harding. (Batsford, 30s.) WHEN, in the 1930s, the Government refused to provide any money for building seaplanes to fly for the......

The Most Distressful Country

The Great Hunger, Ireland, 1845-49. By Cecil Woodham-Smith. (Hamish Hamilton. 30s.) THERE are events in a nation's history that are watersheds. The American Civil War is one. I......