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June 2013
Adam Nicolson's Gentry is a superb survey of the 600-year rise and fall of a class of landed Englishmen
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June 2013
Two major biographies of Margaret Thatcher — one vivid and concise, the other magisterial — are essential reading for anyone who cares about the Iron Lady
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June 2013
Ben Judah's rich and thoughtful account of the Putin years charts a Russian political system continually manipulated by a wounded leader
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June 2013
The Taste of Ashes by Marci Shore is a history typical of a modern, intellectual "non-Jewish" Jew, which downplays the impact of the Holocaust
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