Philip Ziegler

Home thoughts from abroad | 25 November 2009

This book is companion to a television series (though the times seem slightly out of joint — on the front cover we are told that it is ‘As seen on the BBC’ while at the back the series is described as ‘first broadcast in 2010’).

  • Getting Our Way

    Christopher Meyer

    Weidenfeld, pp. 320

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