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Books and Arts; Book review; The second world war; Counting the cost; Two British historians analyse the 20th century’s worst conflict. All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945. By Max Ha...

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Opera; Star light, star bright; A meditation on England; In 1572 a new star blazed through the sky. It was a cataclysmic event for scholars, who believed at the time that the universe was unchangin...

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Books and arts. Books review. Ernest Hemingway's Biography. The old man and the sea. Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961. By Paul Hendrickson. Paul Hendrickson bibli...

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When Dr Maathai came home after half a decade in America, she found huge changes. They were not all for the better. Kenya had gained its independence just two years before, and political power was now...

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In many ways it seems odd that Wangari Maathai’s life should have been so closely associated with struggle. Success appeared to come almost effortlessly to her, even though her origins were humble. Sh...

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Books and Arts; Book review; Black magic in London; Crimes of passion; The Boy in the River. By Richard Hoskins. In the late 1980s Richard Hoskins, young and newly married, spent six years as a mi...

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As a student in Berlin, he irked Hitler by refusing to meet him. In 1938, as Austria’s leaders quailed before the Anschluss, the Habsburgs’ scion offered to return and rally resistance. Luckily, he di...

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If only his great-uncle had died earlier. Franz Joseph I was a masterful ruler of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but his 86 years brought rigidity when the times called for reform. This doomed the noble...