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View from the Eye of Desert Storm

Maj Gen Patrick Cordingley talks about his Gulf War diaries

Maj Gen Patrick Cordingley talks about his book about the Gulf War, In the Eye of the Storm, based on the diaries he kept while head of British forces in Operation Desert Storm against Iraq. Plus, Donald Thomas's biography, Lewis Carroll: A Portrait with Background, and a new comic novel by Lynne Truss, Tennyson's Gift, in which the creator of Alice appears as a fictional character; a fresh look at Daniel Defoe's 1722 classic, Moll Flanders.

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This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project