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Douglas Johnson British Society and the French Wars 1793-1815 Clive Emsley (Macmillan £8.95; 0.95) Throughout the winter of 1797 to 1798 Bonaparte's army was encamped on the......

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Mary Furness Nancy Cunard Anne Chisholm (Sidgwick £8.50) Nancy Cunard was the volatile, energetic, wilful, notorious, selfish, ambitious (but for what she never seemed quite to......