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Country And Western From Seventh Avenue

D.J. Taylor THE KINKY FRIEDMAN CRIME CLUB by Kinky Friedman Faber, f14.99, pp. 468 T he puff by Joseph Heller and the jack- et photo of an immensely cool dude in a fedora......

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......