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There’s a scene at the start of Robert Harris’s novel Munich, about the 1938 Munich Agreement, in which the dire state of Britain’s pre-war defences are described. One by one, the chiefs of staff tell ...

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Two fiction books about good friends coming from different circumstances. Two biographies of people whose influence on American culture is, arguably, still underrated. One Liza Minnelli memoir. These ...