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Tsar-emperor

Ronald Hingley Fire and Water: A Life of Peter the Great Alex de Jonge (Collins £7.50) Even by Russian standards Peter the Great was a package of paradoxes larger than life. He......

War Tragedy

Richard West The Boer War Thomas Pakenham (Weidenfeld 210) Do we need another book on the Boer War SO soon after Rayne Kruger's excellent Goodbye Dolly Gray and Byron Farwell's......