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Two Cultures And Divided Loyalties
Andrew Lownie THE RED AND THE BLUE by Andrew Sinclair Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £12.95 C ambridge in the Thirties has become synonymous with treachery in high places. Hardly a year......
Trying To Bring The Bomb To Life
Stephen Pickles STALLION GATE by Martin Cruz Smith Collins Harvill, £10.95 S tallion Gate is an unusual book, part thriller, part picaresque, part fiction. Where Gorky Park's......
Child-beaten
On wet days when washing lay in milky Piles through the house, my mother moved like clouds Above me, heaving to a storm — to hit me With raw-red hand and arm, as one near......