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Intruders In The Dust

John Woods EMBRACE by Mark Behr Little, Brown, £16.99, pp. 590 T his is a powerful, complex, disturbing work. Mark Behr revisits the territory marked out in his debut novel The......

Patron Saint Of German History

Alan Sked FREDERICK THE GREAT: KING OF PRUSSIA by David Fraser Allen Lane, £25, pp. 703 S tudents of history are not exactly lack- ing in works on Frederick the Great.......