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American .

farce Al Capp The Seventeenth Degree Mary McCarthy (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £6.00) Mary McCarthy is an American novelist who' was known, chiefly, to a small band of other......

Irish Tragedy

Denis Donoghue Ireland in the War Years 1939-1945 Joseph T. Carroll (David and Charles £4.50). Hell or Connaught: The Cromwellian Colonisation of Ireland 1652-1660. Peter......