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Identity And Nationhood
Paddy and Mr Punch by RF Foster, Allen Lane. £22.50 Two DAAGES OF I.RISHNESS appeal to me. One is the story, possibly aprocryphal, of the Irish soldiers in the British Army......
Rites Of
mystery The Byzantine Rite by Robert Taft Si, Liturgical Press, £6.95 FR ROBERT TAFT IS known in liturgical circles as professor of Oriental liturgy at the Pontifical Oriental......
A Very English Kind Of Hostage
Taken on Trust by Terry Waite, Hodder and Stoughton, £14.99 RRY WAITE HAS HAD a bad press since he returned from his four years in captivity in Lebanon, after his attempts to......
Icons Of Our Age
More of a Certain Age by Naim Attallah, Quartet Books, £15 THE ONE THING THAT must sweeten the bitter pill of old age for the Great and the Good is the prospect of Naim Anallah......
The Double Standards Of Greatness
The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General de Gaulle by Charles Williams, Little, Brown and Co. £25 THERE WTI I NEVER BE a satisfactory definition of greatness. Most of us,......