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Micawber With A Touch Of Skimpole

Raymond Carr T HE W IT IN THE D UNGEON by Anthony Holden Little, Brown, £20, pp. 448, ISBN 0316859273 ✆ £18 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 F IERY H EART by Nicholas Roe Pimlico,......

Defeat And Betrayal

Geoffrey Wheatcroft T HE V OTE : H OW IT W AS W ON AND H OW IT W AS U NDERMINED by Paul Foot Viking, £25, pp. 505, ISBN 067091536X the Civil War (or ‘English Revolution’) as......