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Books Do Furnish A Tv Series

Bevis Hillier 12 B OOKS THAT C HANGED THE W ORLD by Melvyn Bragg Hodder, £20, pp. 372, ISBN 0340839805 ✆ £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 W hen I was younger, I used to think,......

Ill-considered Imperial Gestures

Douglas Hurd 1956: P OWER D EFIED by Peter Unwin Michael Russell, £20, pp. 256, ISBN 0859552969 D uring 1956 three major powers made dramatic efforts to prop up their position......