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The Mother Of All Battles

Nigel Nicolson STALINGRAD by Anthony Beevor Viking, £25, pp. 494 A German soldier in Stalingrad, sur- veying the misery around him, was heard to mutter, They must never know at......

The First Book Of Kings

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The Spectator Bookshop

Bookortheke Fatima's Scarf by David Caute The novel no publisher would print `I think this book is brilliant. Fatima's Scarf is something very rare in English letters: a......