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Books

`Ah, horrible war!' Max Hastings Man of Wars Alan Hankinson (Heinemann 12.50) SS even years ago, Philip Knightley wrote a history of war correspondents entitled The First......

Put Out More Flags

Philip Warner The Phony War 1939-1940 Tom Shachtman (Harper & Row £8.95) T he eight months between the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and their invasion of France......

Vortex

Francis King Tarr Wyndham Lewis (Penguin £2.95) O n e of the few advantages of growing th old is that one can approach as or ° ,4 11 for the first time some person, place k - f......