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March 2013
Lucy Hughes-Hallett's Life of Gabriele D'Annunzio paints a picture of a compelling and anarchic poet-statesman
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March 2013
Robert A. Ventresca's attempt to dispassionately assess the divisive Pope Pius XVII's pontificate is well-meaning but a penance to read
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March 2013
The cult of Benjamin Britten lives on in Paul Kildea's new biography, painting the composer as a perennial victim
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March 2013
Unapologetic terrorist or revolutionary? Menachem Begin is rightly de-demonised, but not whitewashed, in Avi Shilon's new biography
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