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Bitter End

Phillip Knightley Exemplary Justice Allen Andrews (Harrap £5.25) The interesting thing about this book is not so much the story it tells but why the author felt he had to tell......

Balls-ups

Anthony Clare On the Psychology of Military Incompetence Norman F. Dixon (Jonathan Cape £6.95) Those very characteristics which are demanded of the individual soldier by war are......