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A new postscript for this edition examines the argument that China and the West are inevitably heading for confrontation

as crazy and unpredictable as the April weather

Most records of their journeys were destroyed

Our Endless Numbered Days new-arrivals-180123 from beatings1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of The Railway Children and listening to her mother's grand piano, but her pretty life is about to change. Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions for the end which is surely coming soon, takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared. Her life is reduced