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The Forgotten Crisis

Allan Mallinson THE CURRAGH INCIDENT AND THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914, VOLUME VII, A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH CAVALRY, 1816-1919 by the Marquess of Anglesey Leo Cooper, £35, pp. 288 T......

Two Cultures Intertwined

Tobias Jones CULTURAL BABBAGE: TECHNOLOGY, TIME AND INVENTION edited by Francis Spufford and Jenny Uglow Faber, £15.99, pp. 290 I f over-specialisation is the bane of academia,......

The Allure Of Wickedness

Patrick Skene Catling THE EVIL THAT MEN DO by Brian Masters Doubleday, £16.99, pp. 278 B rian Masters has asked himself an unanswerable question: 'Why are some of us......