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Great Captain

IN June, 1808, Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Wellesley, thirty-nine years old, and about to take command of a new British Expeditionary Force to the Iberian Peninsula, was......

Study In Black

Amateur Agent. By Ewan Butler. (Harrap, 21s.) Was prepared for almost anything that bleak afternoon of February, 1941, when for the first time I visited Woburn Abbey. The Abbey......

The Revolutionary Myth

FROM Michelet to Taine, from Aulard to Mathiez it is hard for the general reader of history to grope his way to any balanced view of the French Revolution. The great French......