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Tactician's Paradise
ROMMEL is said to have described the Western Desert as a 'tactician's paradise and quarter- master's nightmare.' The British Army, too, re- gards deserts as militarily 'U'; they......
Taking To Flight
WHo made the first flight across the English Chan- nel, and when? Bleriot—about 1909? Ha? One good reason for reading First Flights is the amount of money you can win on one of......
Metternich
A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812-1822. By Henry Kissinger. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 36s.) No one who looks at history can imagine, as......