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Prussian

Piers Paul Read Ravenstein: Portrait of a German General Rowland Ryden (Hamish Hamilton E7.95) The life of Hans von Ravenstein is hardly more interesting than that of any other......

Anti-hero

Anthony Nutting David Livingstone Oliver Ransford (Constable £8.50) Writing about explorers can be tricky. The reader can all too easily become no less travel-weary than the......

Art And The Man

Martin Butlin William Blake, His Life and Works Jack Lindsay (Constable 29.50) In the case of few artists more than Wil" ham Blake can it truly be said that the art was the man.......