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Sabres And Rose Petals

Mark Archer GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO: DEFIANT ANGEL by John Woodhouse Clarendon Press, £25, pp. 406 H ad D'Annunzio not led his march on Fiume in 1919, his career would have merited......

Rebels Between Two Seas

Liliana Brisby THE SPIRIT WRESTLERS: A RUSSIAN JOURNEY by Philip Marsden HarperCollins, £1799, pp. 250 T he genesis of Marsden's latest travel book tells us something about the......