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Too Funny For Words

Kevin Brownlow SILENT COMEDY by Paul Merton Random House, £25, pp. 322, ISBN 9781905211708 £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 1 n 1989, when David Gill and I celebrated the......

Fear And Loathing In Old Europe

Allan Mallinson NAPOLEON'S WARS by Charles Esdaile Allen Lane, £30, pp. 621, ISBN X9780713997156 © £24 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 What marks out the Napoleonic wars from......