5 DECEMBER 1981, page 23

Give The

Spectator this Christmas His high standards included food; so preparing dinner was no light task. His wife was 17 years older than he was, but he was always devoted to her.......

Anzio Fiasco

Philip Warner Rome '44: The Battle for the Eternal City Raleigh Trevelyan (Secker and Warburg PP. 366, £13.95) Those who fought in the Italian campaign I will welcome this book.......

Patrick Kavanagh 1906-1967

I was taken aback by the hostility. was nothing, young, a nobody. But for you I was part of a 'London conspiracy' You told my Irish girl. When she repeated it I crashed the car.......