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Unroll That Map ...

Jonathan Clark MAPS AND HISTORY by Jeremy Black Yale, £25, pp. 267 H istory is about chaps; geography is about maps.' In the days when England was run by self-important old men......

Those Magnificent Men

Montagu Curzon TUMULT IN THE CLOUDS: THE BRITISH EXPERIENCE OF THE WAR IN THE AIR, 1914-1918 by Nigel Steel and Peter Hart Hodder, £20, pp. 352 ne tries the usual defences: it......