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Famous Five

JOHN LARNER The Borgias: The Rise and Fall of a Renais- sance Dynasty Michael Mallett (Bodley Head 63s) The Borgia family still flourishes today in South America and France; the......

Sea Salt

OLIVER WARNER Man of War: Sir Robert Holmes and the Restoration Navy Richard 011ard (Hodder and Stoughton 50s) This is a biography of a professional fighting sailor who grew up......