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Four books from The Last Books (opens the original)
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An explanation for the peculiarities of the English might be that their country hasn’t been invaded by the forces of any other state for about a thousand years – apart, perhaps, from a brief incursion by Jacobite Scots in 1745 (they turned back at Derby). In this, England is different from every other country in Europe, possibly excepting Iceland and Switzerland. The common pattern in continental Europe has been of seizure and occupation, of borders shifting, of peoples on the move. The wars of
Three books by Irénée Scalbert (opens the original)
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