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It is also a feast for the eyes

What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget

whether government or retailer

change was less profound

Van Gogh and Renoir

The Glass Mountain House plants It is also a feastMalcolm Gaskill knew two things about his great uncle Ralph's wartime adventures: he'd been a prisoner in Italy, and he'd cut his way out of a train with a knife and fork. Apart from that, he'd faded into family folklore, lost to view. Until, one hot afternoon in an English country garden, a chance conversation set him off on his uncle's trail. What Ralph really did in the war was, he discovers, even more extraordinary than the exaggerations of family