3 DECEMBER 1977, page 24

Useful Lies

Phillip Knightley Keep the Home Fires Burning Cate Haste (Allen Lane, £7.50) All countries at war lie on principle. They do this not only to fool the enemy but to mobilise the......

Misogynists

Jill Craigle The Feminists Richard J. Evans (Croon ) Helm E8,95) The absurd, semi-sadistic restrictions imposed upon women in Christian wan tries during the eighteenth and......