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Overbearing And Undermining

Philip Mansel LORD CROMER by Roger Owen OUP, £25, pp. 436. ISBN 0199253382 A hundred and twenty years ago, the global hyper-power invaded a strategic Middle Eastern country. It......

Blundering After A Bird

John de Falbe PENGUIN LOST by Andrey Kurkov, translated from the Russian by George Bird Harril1,1110.99, pp.255. ISBN 1843430959 A nyone who gave themselves the pleasure of......