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From Nuts To F16s

Norman Stone LORDS OF THE HORIZON by Jason Goodwin Chatto, £18.99, pp. 288 C an Islam ever become modern, or even 'European'? The question is not new. For most of the 19th......

Clouds Without Silver Linings

John Redwood PROGRESS AND BARBARISM: THE WORLD IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Clive Pouting Chatto, f30, pp. 584 C live Ponting's massive book of 20th- century history is epic in......