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Re-assessments

Prisoner of war Simon Raven The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston Siegfried Sassoon (Faber £7.95; £4.95) The Sherston Trilogy', as it is sometimes called, is an......

Arts

Bleak Boris Geoffrey Wheatcroft Boris Godunov (ENO) The textual history of Boris is complicated even by the standards of 19th century opera.iModest Mussorgsky (Constant Lambert......