26 FEBRUARY 1977, page 22

Bumbling

Benny Green The Great Boer War Byron Farwell (Allen Lane £7.50) The Boer War was one of those affairs whose military significance was destined by subsequent events to be dwarfed......

Royal Scot

John Brewer Montrose, The King's Champion Max Hastings (Gollanoz £7.50) Britain's seventeenth-century civil war left deep scars and bitter memories. Even a full hundred years......

Spain Revisited

Patrick Cosg rave The Spanish Civil War Hugh Thomas (Hamish Hamilton £12.50 and Penguin £3.50) It is given to few to write a masterpiece, and to even fewer to write more than......