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Europe's Odd Man Out

Nigel Clive ALBANIA'S NATIONAL LIBERATION STRUGGLE: THE BITTER VICTORY by Reginald Hibbert Pinter, £35, pp. 269 R eginald Hibbert's career in govern- ment service began as a......

Come To Spy Out The Land?

Anne Somerset GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE EMBASSY AFFAIR by John Bossy Yale University Press, £16.95, pp. 294 T he 1580s were tense years for Queen Elizabeth I. Protestant England......

Right From The Start

Richard Lamb STALIN: BREAKER OF NATIONS by Robert Conquest Weidenfeld & Nicholson, £18.99 pp.346 R obert Conquest, a former Spectator Literary Editor, is the arch hard-line......