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Matthew Spencer JOURNEY TO THE HOLY MOUNTAIN by Christopher Merrill HarperCollins, £17.99, pp. 346, ISBN 0007119011 1 f you were a poet returnin g from warrava g ed Yu g oslavia......

A Bungled Case For The Prosecution

Norman Stone THE BURNING TIGRIS: THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE by Peter Balakian Heinemann, £18.99, pp. 473, ISBN 0434008168 A s the Western world knows all too well, collapsing empires......