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John de Falbe JORWERD: THE DEATH OF THE VILLAGE IN LATE 20TH-CENTURY EUROPE by Geert Mak, translated from the Dutch by Ann Kelland Harvill, £12, pp. 269 O nce in a while one......

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Geoffrey Wheatcroft A MOUTHFUL OF BROKEN GLASS by Henk van Woerden, translated by Dan Jacobson Granta, £12.99, pp. 176 I n 1966 one of the most dramatic assassi- nations took......