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You Can't Keep A Bad Man Down

Anthony Blond THE CAPTAIN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SIMON RAVEN by Michael Barber Duckworth, £18.95, pp. 250 M r Barber's first book must be marked alpha plus. This is a biography......

Believe It Or Nod

Peter Vansittart CREDO S eventh-century Britain, rebuilding itself after post-Roman turmoils, remains outlandish, faintly risible, with words like outfangentheof, names like......