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All Expectations Confounded

Norman Stone RUSSIA'S WAR by Richard Overy Penguin, £20, pp. 394 I n 1988, as the Soviet collapse was start- ing, you could see at Sheremtevo airport great plane-loads of......

Battling For Beauty

Diana Mosley THROUGH WOOD AND VALE by James Lees - Milne John Murray, f20, pp. 325 A re diaries 'true'? Jim Lees-Milne's are a long and fascinating novel, of which he is the......