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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......

No End Of A Lesson

Allan Mallinson C OBRA II: T HE I NSIDE S TORY OF THE I NVASION AND O CCUPATION OF I RAQ by Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor Atlantic Books, £25, pp. 603, ISBN 1843543524 ✆......