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Hard Times

Richard Cobb Society and Culture in Early Modern France Natalie Zemon Davis (Duckworth 0.80) ". . . Throughout the essays I have had a continuing concern about the sources for......

The Big League

Brian Inglis A Time for Angels Elmer Bendiner (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £7.95) The story of the conception, birth, growing pains and death agonies of the League of Nations has......

King Pin

Douglas Houghton The Cecil King Diary: 1970-1974 (Jonathan Cape £5.95) This is the second of Cecil King's chronicles of the state of gloom of those at the top. Unlike the first......