6 MAY 1966, page 21

Mom

Waiting for the End, Boys By JOHN DAVENPORT H isToRy has an irritating habit of refusing to fall into neat divisions and sub- divisions of time for the benefit of the idle-......

Gotterdammerung

The Last Battle. By Cornelius Ryan. (Collins, 45s.) A RECENT issue of The Times Literary Supple- ment, devoted entirely to the writing of history, made a number of very scathing......