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May 2012
A new book by Harry Mount attributes the particular, phlegmatic character of the English to the nature of England itself
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May 2012
Orlando Figes's Just Send Me the Word conveys the enduring love of a couple whose incarceration in Stalin's gulags couldn't suppress
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May 2012
'Unlike Nazis shooting defenceless women and children into ditches, or herding them into purpose-built as chambers, RAF air crew faced the nightly risk of violent death'
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May 2012
Will today’s scientists hunting the Higgs boson prove as ingenious as the ancient Mesopotamians?
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