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Led By Donkeys

Byron Rogers THE CRIMEAN WAR by Clive Panting Chatto, £20, pp. 280, ISBN 0283073551 THE NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM OF THE CRIMEAN WAR by Alastair Massie Sidgwick &Jackson, £25, pp.......

A Rather Ferocious Person

Eric Christiansen CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN by Veronica Buckley Fourth Estate, £20, pp. 479, ISBN 184115704X C hristina became queen of Sweden because her heroic father Gustavus......