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Fear And Loathing In Old Europe

Allan Mallinson NAPOLEON'S WARS by Charles Esdaile Allen Lane, £30, pp. 621, ISBN X9780713997156 © £24 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 What marks out the Napoleonic wars from......

Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover

Christian House THE JOURNAL OF DORA DAMAGE by Belinda Starling Bloomsbury, £12.99, pp. 452, ISBN9780747585220 £1039 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 With its quartos, rectos and......

A Love Story

Daniel Swift SPITFIRE: PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND by Leo McKinstry John Murray, £20, pp. 435, ISBN9780719568749 £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 The pilots called it 'the Spit', 'my......