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Challenge And Response

Raymond Carr EMPIRE, WAR AND FAITH IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE by Geoffrey Parker Allen Lane, £25, pp. 411, ISBN 0713995157 P rofessor Parker is one of the three most distinguished......

Cracking The Knossos Code

Sara Paton THE MAN WHO DECIPHERED LINEAR B: THE STORY OF MICHAEL VENTRIS by Andrew Robinson Thames & Hudson, £12.95, pp. 168, ISBN 0500510776 CHe died, like all geniuses, at the......