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A Baleful Star In The Ascendant

John Lukacs HITLER, 1899-1936: HUBRIS by Ian Kershaw Allen LanelPenguin, £20, pp. 758 T he long-awaited biography of Hitler by Ian Kershaw — or at least its first volume — is......

The Old Man And The Sea

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