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Heads That Wore The Crown

Robert Stewart M ONARCHY : F ROM THE M IDDLE A GES TO M ODERNITY by David Starkey HarperCollins, £20, pp. 319, ISBN 0007247508 ✆ £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 D avid......

A Map Of The Road To Hell

Adam LeBor T HE B EST I NTENTIONS : K OFI A NNAN AND THE UN IN THE E RA OF A MERICAN P OWER by James Traub Bloomsbury, £20, pp. 464, ISBN 0747580871 ✆ £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870......

Kofi

A limp soft-soaper, he wouldn’t say Boo to a goose. Cautiously neutral, he tried emollience, thereby creating genocide the massacre of the Tutsis by the Hutus. He similarly......