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The Quaker Prince Of Ghor

Matthew Leeming JOSIAH THE GREAT by Ben Macintyre HarperCollins, £20, pp, 350, ISBN 0007151063 T he saga of the First Afghan War, one of the greatest disasters ever met by the......

Rare Conjunctions Of The Stars

Raymond Carr A CHANCE MEETING by Rachel Cohen Cape. .£16.99, pp. 363, ISBN 0224072587 L awyers meet lawyers, historians and economists meet their colleagues. They have a defined......