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High-speed History

Eric Christiansen The Spoils of Time C. V. Wedgwood (Collins £15) rr here are several reasons for attempting 1 to write world history, none of them entirely respectable. Some......

Friends Reunited

Julian Jebb Faces of Philip: A memoir of Philip Toynbee Jessica Mitford (Heinemann £9.95) T wo things which are notoriously diffi- cult to convince a reader about is that a......