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Less Deadly Than P. Mayle

Alexander Chancellor H igh summer is upon us, and the flights from London to Pisa are fully booked. It may not have been John Mortimer who invented the concept of `Chiantishire'......

Old-fashioned War In Burma

J.L. Carr QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE by George Macdonald Fraser Harvill, fI6, pp.225 B y and large, this is an account of what happened during 1945 to a 20-year-old foot-soldier as......