Jingling his spurs
P.N. Furbank, 10 October 1991
Private Words: Letters and Diaries from the Second World War
edited by Ronald Blythe.
Viking, 310 pp., £16.99, September 1991,0 670 83204 9 Show More
edited by Ronald Blythe.
Viking, 310 pp., £16.99, September 1991,
“... Chase, plus ten English fags. To my surprise he jumped at the chance and I became the owner of William Prescott’s History of the Conquest of Mexico, and of Peru. A great work, but the only trouble was the thought of having to hump it around when we moved. But I said to myself that I would think about that when the time came, and got down to some serious ... ”