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The Summing-up

On Their Shoulders : British Generalship in the . • Lean Years 1939-1942. By Brigadier C. N. Barclay. (Faber, 30s.) PERHAPS the most controversial statement in Brigadier......

Innocent Abroad

Road to Volgograd. By Alan Sillitoe. (W. H. Allen, 18s.) ALAN SILLITOE is a fine and original novelist, but his latest work falls into the well-trodden rut of 'books on Russia'......