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The Future That Didn't Work

Raymond Carr COMMUNISM by Richard Pipes Weidenfeld, £14.99, pp. 180, ISBN 0297646885 the survival of communism in Russia until the 1990s that needs to be explained. Pipes's......

The Battle That Has Never Ended

Michael Rose THE ROAD TO VERDUN by Ian Ousby Cape, £17.99, pp. 269, ISBN 0224059904 G iven the many excellent books already written about the battle of Verdun, and also the very......