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Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
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Scoop

by Evelyn Waugh

“The older I got and the more wars I covered – I have done about 18 – the more true it became”–Veteran BBC journalist Martin Bell on Evelyn Waugh’s journalistic satire Scoop. 

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