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What It's Really Like

Jonathan Mirsky JARHEAD: A MARINE CHRONICLE OF THE GULF WAR by Anthony Swofford Scribner, £14.99, pp. 260, ISBN 0743239180 I n a recent column in the Telegraph (8 March) headed......

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Jonathan Sumption THE CROSS AND THE CRESCENT: CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM FROM MOHAMMAD TO THE REFORMATION by Richard Fletcher Allen Lane, £16.99, pp. 183 ISBN 0713996862 17.z.......