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A Powerful Queen On The Chessboard Of Europe

John Jolliffe ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE by Alison Weir Cape, £20, pp. 444 W hile her achievements have always been recognised, Eleanor on the whole had an unjustly bad press until......

Saving The Sum Of Things For Pay

Charles Allen IMPERIAL WARRIORS: BRITAIN AND THE GURKHAS by Tony Gould Granta, £20, pp. 480 I n 1951 an acerbic former literary editor of The Spectator was commissioned by Life......