22 NOVEMBER 1968, page 17
Shooting Tsars
TIBOR SZAMUELY The history of Russia is the history of her tsars, wrote Karamzin, the first great Russian historian. Today, one and a half centuries later, this claim can still......
Life & Hard Times
LORD EGREMONT King Louis Philippe said to Disraeli that he attributed the great success of the British nation to talking about politics after dinner. Of course, he didn't know......
Thirty Years On
JOHN HIGGINS On a hot August day in 1940 I was lying at full stretch, stomach down, in a remote Cornish orchard. It was a good afternoon because the post had brought a batch of......
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