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Richard Mabey is the grand old man of nature writing. He has produced 40 books in his noble crusade against…
An ambitious but selective account of all things Victorian and Edwardian
This is a monumental but inevitably selective survey of all that occurred in Britain, for better or worse, in the…
Stirling work with the SAS
The SAS was the first unit to be granted regimental status for generations. Its chief aim was to damage the…
Marlene Dietrich, George Orwell and the rebirth of a nation
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Ivan Maisky was the Russian ambassador in London from 1932 to 1943, and his knowledge of London, and affection for…
The honour of the Habsburgs was all that mattered to the imperial Austrian army
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The very model of a modern duke
Miles Fitzalan-Howard was one of eight children of a fairly distant cousin of the previous two Dukes of Norfolk, and…
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‘The only man in Paris’
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The third man
In the 1840s and 50s, Douglas Jerrold, Dickens and Thackeray were the three best known literary men in England, and…
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