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Books

A revisionist historian Jan Morris In the Anglo-Arab Labyrinth Elie Kedourie (Cambridge University Press, £12.50) Revisionist history is much the most rewarding. It is rewarding......

Pitt And The Pendulum

John Brewer The Elder Pitt Stanley Ayling (Collins, £6.50) The Pitt family was an eccentric lot. 'Governor' Pitt, the earl of Chatham's grandfather, was an irascible, crotchety......