2 JANUARY 1982, page 19

Cannae Revisited

Michael Wharton Hannibal Ernle Bradford (Macmillan pp. 223, £7.95) B it is impossible to imagine what the, history of the world would have been if there had been no Roman......

Orpheus On The Somme

A. N. Wilson Dear Animated Bust: Letters to Lady Juliet Duff, France 1915-1918 Maurice Baring (Michael Russell pp. 165, £7.50) 4 had met Belloc once before ... but all I he said......