28 MARCH 1981, page 23

Peace Shock

Eric Christiansen The Justice and the Mare's Ale Alan Macfarlane and Sarah Harrison (Blackwe ll pp. 238, £8.50) Will the success of The History Man d° anything to discredit the......

Moscow's Bizarre Pageant

Nikolai Tolstoy The Games War: A Moscow Journal Christopher Booker (Faber pp. 236, £5.95, £2.95) Christgpher Booker is, by his own admission, no ardent follower of spectator......