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Luckless Tribe

Richard West From Our Special Correspondent: Victorian War Correspondents and their Campaigns (Robert Wilkinson-Latham (Hodder £8.95) The Irishman W. H. Russell who covered the......

Home Front

Douglas Johnson British Society and the French Wars 1793-1815 Clive Emsley (Macmillan £8.95; 0.95) Throughout the winter of 1797 to 1798 Bonaparte's army was encamped on the......