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Playing The Game

Ted Dexter Nice Guys Finish Last Paul Gardner (Allen Lane E3.50) You can learn most things about the United States of America without the need to travel much further west than......

Foreign Bodies

Sir Ian Jacob Spoiling the Egyptians John Marlowe (Andre Deutsch £4.95) This book gives us the history of Egypt from the invasion of the country by Napoleon in 1798 to the......