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The Greatest Story Ever Told

Sarah Anderson THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A.D. 2,000 YEARS OF CHRISTIANITY edited by Christopher Howse SPC1C £20, pp. 192 I was puzzled by this book from the moment I started reading......

A Selection Of Recent Art Books

David Ekserdjian A rt books still have little to fear from computer screens, at least while the quality of reproduction they can offer is so incom- parably superior. It cannot......

To The Right, To The Left And In Front

Ian Ousby CRIMEA: THE GREAT CRIMEAN WAR, 1854-56 by Trevor Royle Little, Brown, £22.50, pp. 564 I n our current preoccupation with the world wars of this century we should......