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Shorter Notices

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Prelude To D-day

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Fiction

The Weeping Wood. By Vicki Baum. (Michael Joseph. 12s. 6d.) 1, Said the Fly. By Elisabeth Ferrars. (Hodder and Stoughton. 8s. 6d.) An Inch of Time. By James Norman. (Michael......