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Look Upon The Wine When It Is Read

Peter Levi THE HISTORY OF WINE by Hugh Johnson Mitchell Beazley, f25, pp.480 W hat wine writers are any good? Not the ones whose metaphors float like clouds in the sunset, but......

How The West Was Lost

John Keegan WARFARE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD edited by General Sir John Hackett Sidgwick & Jackson, .f16.95, pp. 256 T he End of History' provokes con- troversy. 'The Beginning of......