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The Rage of the Vulture

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367: 174:(Adelaide) noted: "The end of an era is portrayed in Moorehead's description of the plight of the uprooted British, whose long-established world of privilege has suddenly collapsed...Weaknesses in the novel lie in some of the characterisations, and particularly in the minor but central story of the redemption of the neurotic hero. But 29: 189:, which lift war's horror and terror right into the environment of the reader. While its romantic interest may loiter and sail serenely into tributaries, rebellion and murder rush the main stream of the story headlong into tautness and fear... 193:
is the kind of book one picks up and reads straight through to its end. Alan Moorehead is just as good when he puts himself at the services of fiction as he was when he wrote of the battlefields of Europe and Africa."
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a critic commented: "Moorehead is a very fine reporter indeed. There are almost unbearably tense passages in
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