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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......

Slash And Burn Paul Routledge

IRVINE by Dominic Egan Mainstream, f15.99, pp. 256 I n this case, m'lud, Mr Dominic Egan appears for the prosecution. He will seek to persuade the jury that the Lord Chancel-......

Looking The Other Way

John Vincent REFLECTIONS ON A RAVAGED CENTURY: THE RULE OF ROGUE IDEOLOGIES by Robert Conquest John Murray, f25, pp. 317 L ike the paladin in the Victorian bal- lad who could......