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A Well-calculated Risk

Allan Mallinson THE IRAQ WAR by John Keegan Hutchinson, £18.99, pp. 254, ISBN 0097800188 S ir John Keegan's account of the origins and conduct of the war in Iraq is at once......

One Of The Great Russians

John Bayley LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK by Nikolai Leskov, translated by Robert Chandler Hesperus, £6.99, pp. 66, ISBN 1843910683 THE PRIEST WHO WAS NEVER BAPTISED by Nikolai......