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Recovering From The Past

Mark Archer FROM EMPIRE TO EUROPE by Geoffrey Owen HarperCollins, £19.99, pp. 517 O ne of my abiding memories, as an eight-year-old in 1968, is of my father proudly showing the......

Nice Guys Don't Always Finish Last

Daniel Hannan LINCOLN by Jan Morris Viking, £19.99, pp. 216 H ere is a little jewel-box of a book, not so much a biography as an exercise in trav- el writing decorated with......