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Mission Not Accomplished

Alan Judd SOE IN THE LOW COUNTRIES by M. R. D. Foot St Ennin's Press, £25, pp. 553, ISBN 190360804X I n the second world war the Special Operations Executive (SOE) was......

Can You Forgive Her?

David Nokes THE KINDNESS OF SISTERS by David Crane HarperCollins. £19.99, pp. 286, ISBN 0002570521 T his book, like steak-and-kidney pudding, must be consumed with......