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Autumn Books

One-man think tank John Keegan ALCHEMIST OF WAR: THE LIFE OF BASIL LIDDELL HART by Alex Danchev Weidenfeld, f25, pp. 369 B asil Liddell Hart was, in his heyday, one of the most......

In Sickness And In Health

Anthony Quinton IRIS by John Bayley Duckworth, £16.95, pp. 189 A theme that comes up in a number of Iris Murdoch's novels is that of the destruction of some treasured object:......