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Leftist Roots Showing

Sitin Simon SAFETY FIRST by Paul Anderson and Nyta Mann Granta, £9.99, pp. 464 T his is not at all the book I expected. Paul Anderson and Nyta Mann are keen to point out that......

Fiddler, Statesman, But No Buffoon

Nicholas Farrell MUSSOLINI by Jasper Ridley Constable, £25, pp. 430 hough Italy is awash with them, there have been few biographies of Mussolini in English — some half a dozen......