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Looking The Other Way

John Vincent REFLECTIONS ON A RAVAGED CENTURY: THE RULE OF ROGUE IDEOLOGIES by Robert Conquest John Murray, f25, pp. 317 L ike the paladin in the Victorian bal- lad who could......

When To War-war Was Better Than To Jaw-jaw

M. R. D. Foot FIVE DAYS IN LONDON, MAY 1940 by John Lukacs Yale, £12.95, pp. 229 T he nation's solidarity in the summer crisis of 1940 — 'the Dunkirk spirit' — has become part......