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A Catalogue Of Error And Defeat

Philip Ziegler POLITICAL DIARIES, 1932-197 1 by Patrick Gordon Walker edited by Robert Pearce The Historian's Press, £20, pp.335 ..0 P atrick Gordon Walker stares from the......

The Bonfire And The Phoenix

John Jolliffe THE LAST EMPRESS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ZITA OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY by Gordon Brook-Shepherd HarperCollins, £20, pp. 347 T he Empress Zita's background was not so much......