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Playboy Of The Western Front?

Allan Mallinson THE LETTERS OF LIEUTENANT- COLONEL CHARLES A COURT REPINGTON: MILITARY CORRESPONDENT OF THE TIMES, 1903-1918 edited by A. J. A. Morris Sutton, £50, pp. 380 ho is......

Christian Soldiers With A Vengeance

Jonathan Sumption THE TEMPLARS by Piers Paul Read Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 350 T he Templars were founded a few years after the conquest of the Holy Land by the First Crusade in......