August 1983 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: General General Roald Dahl Not A Chivalrous Affair God Cried By Tony Clifton and Catherine Leroy LR M R D Foot Who Dares Wins Finest Hour: Winston S Churchill 1939–1941 By Martin Gilbert LR Francis Wheen Epater Les Highbrows John Betjeman: His Life and Work By Patrick Taylor-Martin LR Mark Redhead Visionary Vales Land of the Vales By Melvyn Bragg LR
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