7 NOVEMBER 1914, Page 34

It seems difficult to realize that there was a day

when "German and Briton fought side by side as brothers-in- arms." But in Minden. and the Seven Years' War (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 5s. net) Sir Lees Knowles recalls the heroism of the single line of British infantry which, under the admiring gaze of its German allies, broke through three lines of cavalry ranked in order of battle and tumbled them to ruin.