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Might And Right In San Salvador

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard WEAKNESS AND DECEIT by Raymond Bonner Hamish Hamilton, f13.95 T hey were priests and their catechists, teachers and their students, carpenters and......

The Patron Saint Of Historians

Eric Christiansen F. W. MAITLAND by G. R. Elton Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £12.95 I t is strange that two of the most arro- gant men in England are Tudor historians. You would......