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For Here We Have A Continuing City

Kit McMahon THE CITY OF LONDON: VOLUME I: A WORLD OF ITS OWN 1815-90 by David Kynaston Chatto & Windus, f25, pp. 497 T he history of the City of London is a splendid subject and......

Passing By On The Other Side

Lucretia Stewart THE SORROW OF WAR by Bao Ninh Secker, £8.99, pp. 217 I t has taken nearly 20 years for the United States to lift the trade embargo on Vietnam and almost as long......