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Transplants That Failed To Flourish

Simon Courtauld LOST WHITE TRIBES by Riccardo Orizio Secker, £15.99, pp. 271 S everal hundred German artisans from Hanover came to Jamaica in 1834, ostensi- bly to replace the......

The Red Hand Of Ulster

Andro Linklater THE SECOND PRISON by Ronan Bennett Review, f6.99, pp. 310 I n October 1969 Andrei Sinyaysky, incar- cerated as a political dissident in the Dubrovlag camp, came......

Spectator Book Of The Week

DELIVER US FROM EVIL by William Shawcross In this urgent new book, William Shawcross reveals what lies behind decisions by the international community to intervene in crisis......