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Ormuz And Ind

The Persian Gulf in the Twentieth Century. By John Marlowe. (Cresset, 30s.) 1 HAVE long considered John Marlowe our best writer on Middle Eastern politics, unsurpassed in......

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Tuts expanded version of the Ford Lectures de- livered in Oxford in 1960 is one of the most interesting books on nineteenth-century English history to have appeared for many......

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