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Books

Journalist-dictator Owen Chadwick T his is certainly a brilliant life of Mussolini. It is of the man, not of his time; it is Mussolini, not Mussolini's Italy; and men are not......

Foul Drain

Anthony Storr W illiam Mercer, alias Dornford Yates, began writing short stories for the Windsor magazine in 1911, when he was a young, and mostly briefless, barrister. The......