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Books

I n 1982, in a series of columns in the Observer, Conor Cruise O'Brien ardently defended Israel's invasion of Lebanon. Yet again the spunky little Jewish state was slaying the......

Stands Scotland Where It Did?

Robert Stewart A CENTURY OF THE SCOTTISH PEOPLE, 1830-1950 by T. C. Smout Collins, (15 T he trouble with the social history of nations is that it is hard to make books out of......