Redheads in Normandy

From the LRB letters page: [ 5 February 1998 ] Ed Horton.

R.W. Johnson is an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. His new book, South Africa’s Brave New World, will be published by Penguin in the spring.

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Rogue’s Paradise · The Russians and the Anglo-Boer War by Apollon Davidson and Irina Filatova

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Her Boy · Mark Thatcher

Where do we go from here? · Zimbabwe