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Critics And Specialists

THESE two volumes promise, from the table :•f contents, to be more coherently planned than most collections of literary essays; and, up to a point, closer study bears this out.......

War And Candour • •

Crimean War Reader. By Kellow Chesriey. (Muller, 25s.) No war before the Crimea—not even the great Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns—so engaged the day-to-day attention of the......

Choosing Hiroshima

Command Decisions. Edited by Kent Greenfield. (Methuen, 42s.) PRESIDENT TRUMAN has never publicly doubted that he was right to order the aerial obliteration of Hiroshima. As he......