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Third Time Lucky

Robert Blake LETTERS TO EVA by A. J. P. Taylor Century, £20, pp. 486 A .J.P. (Alan) Taylor was perhaps the best-known British historian in the post- war period. He was a master......

Thereby Hangs A Youth

Brian Masters D erek Bentley, an illiterate half-wit prone to epilepsy, was hanged for murder in 1953 after a trial attended by much sen- sational publicity, firstly because he......