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...Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West by Peter Heather and John Rapley (Allen Lane) Western hegemony is in decline....
...The emerald lime of pastureland patched here and there with the buff and taupe of heather. Low grey farm buildings huddled into the hillscape....
...Rashid Khalidi details a century of conflict in The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine (Profile RRP£25, February/Henry Holt RRP$30, January)....
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