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The Thirty Years Slaughter

Ian Garrick Mason A W AR L IKE N O O THER : H OW THE A THENIANS AND S PARTANS F OUGHT THE P ELOPONNESIAN W AR by Victor Davis Hanson Methuen, £18.99, pp. 397, ISBN 0413775259 V......

Coping With The Van Gogh Syndrome

David Ekserdjian S IR T HOMAS L AWRENCE by Michael Levey Yale, £45, pp. 256, ISBN 0300109989 ✆ £36 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 I n the context of the visual arts, the notion......