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...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
..., career author is Honoré de Balzac, particularly his Le Père Goriot and the subsequent story of his character Eugène de Rastignac....
...The oath turned out to be the royalist part, whereby the newcomers promised to be “faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, her heirs and successors”....
...The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One By Miranda Carter Fig Tree, £25 The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II provide a grotesque...
...For Spacey, this O’Neill is a sequel to his collaboration with the director Howard Davies after their immense 1998 hit in The Iceman Cometh....
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