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Alan Gibson The Railway Navvy David Brooke (David & Charles £9.95) The Railway Builders R.S. Joby (David & Charles £9.50) The Railway Heritage of Britain Gordon Biddle, O.S.......

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Jeffrey Meyers Kleist: A Biography Joachim Maass Translated by Ralph Manheim (Seeker & Warburg £12.95) T he Prussian playwright Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) is known to most......