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The First Commandos

Geoffrey VVheatcroft ADRIFT ON THE OPEN VELD: THE ANGLO-BOER WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1899-1943 by Deneys Reitz Stormberg, £14.99, pp. 560 J ust 100 years ago, the Boer war had......

Very Rum Shipmates

John de Falbe ENGLISH PASSENGERS by Matthew Kneale Hamish Hamilton, £15.99, pp. 448 I n his pamphlet A Proof Against the Atheisms of Geology, the Reverend Geof- frey Wilson......

Fair Dos All Round

Geoffrey Owen JOBS AND FAIRNESS by Robert Oakeshott Michael Russell, £35, pp. 710 M ost people accept that an industrial enterprise is likely to perform better if the people who......