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Bearskins

Tom Hartman Pillars of Monarchy: Royal Guards 1400-1984 Philip Mansel (Quartet £18.50) T his is 'not a work of military history' says the author in his introduction, by Which he......

Devil Dreams

Kathy O'Shaughnessy Russian 19th-Century Gothic Tales Edited by Valeria Korovin (Central Books £8.95) R ound the time Mary Shelley was .scribbling Frankenstein in Switzer- land,......