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Books

One big unhappy family Richard Cobb The Long March of the French Left R.W. Johnson (Macmillan pp. 345,120). This is a professional book about the highly skilled, elaborate......

A Shoddy Little Fantasy

Paul Foot The Chariot of Israel Harold Wilson (Weidenfeld & Nicholson pp.406, £14.95) A wry Arab scholar once pointed out that Palestine was the perfect place for the settlement......