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Books

An unbroken spirit Christopher Booker Within the Whirlwind Eugenia Ginzburg, with an introduction by Heinrich Boll (Collins/Harvill pp. 423, £9.95) No one who has read Eugenia......

The Chauvinist Saint

Shiva Naipaul Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism (Weidenfeld and Nicolson pp. 349, £9.95) Early in 1429 a peasant girl, barely 17 years old, presented herself at the court......