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July/August 2014
This study of empire building is imaginative and vivid, but has a loose grip on detail
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July/August 2014
A new book shows how Edmund Burke's thoughts are still relevant to our present discontents
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July/August 2014
Vermes' work skilfully separates fact from Herod's grizzly fiction in a succinct and readable book
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July/August 2014
An excellent book on the deal between Hitler and Stalin that shocked the world 75 years ago
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