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The Great General Who Lost Battles

Harry Mount H IS E XCELLENCY G EORGE WASHINGTON by Joseph Ellis Faber, £20, pp. 352, ISBN 0571212123 ✆ £18 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 W hat a stupid name for a biography.......

The Latest And The Best

Peter Phillips T HE O XFORD H ISTORY OF W ESTERN M USIC by Richard Taruskin OUP, £280, pp. 4016, ISBN 0195169794 F or once the publisher’s blurb has it right. This is a......