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...This article has been republished to correct the dates General Sir John Wilsey was in charge of the British Army in Northern Ireland...
...How to Fight a War by Mike Martin Hurst £22, 272 pages John Paul Rathbone is the FT’s security and defence correspondent Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The Lock-Up by John Banville (Faber/Hanover Square Press)The third title in Banville’s crime series sees the return of Detective Inspector St John Strafford to investigate the suspicious “suicide” of a young...
...Malik’s historic heroes are thinkers he classifies as liberal universalists — James Baldwin, John Stuart Mill, CLR James, Hannah Arendt — but the culprits in the collapse of universalist politics are for...
...An Economist’s Outlook: Essays by John H....
...There is a John le Carré quality to many of the episodes. CIA operatives turn up as journalists, interpreters, businessmen and private secretaries, sometimes bearing suitcases of cash....
...Britain’s David Richards and America’s John Nicholson were notable exceptions. They restrained field commanders and sought engagement....
...Scott’s involvement was kept secret and he enlisted the naive but willing John Ballantyne, brother of Scott’s school friend James, to front it....
...“What we’ve unlocked is one of the most highly predictable, secure assets,” Hurst said....
..., £20, 408 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café Letter in response to this article: How colonial west Africa was different / From John Webster, London SW1, UK...
...Haldane: The Forgotten Statesman Who Shaped Modern Britain, by John Campbell (in collaboration with Richard McLauchlan), Hurst, RRP£30, 484 pages Philip Stephens is an FT columnist Letters in response...
...FG supermarketofdreams.com Upton Smokery, Oxfordshire Hurst Barn Farm in Burford is a destination beloved of the Chipping Norton set, with Chris Mills’s expertly smoked game, pheasant, goose, partridge...
...John Betjeman called it “to some, the most beautiful churchyard in the world” – and he was spot on. It’s right on the water, gobsmackingly beautiful, and I’d love to see it at high tide....
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...Among his admirers were John D Rockefeller, Gertrude Stein and Leo Tolstoy. Yet Shearer is equally clear that yoga, with its eastern mystique, provided convenient cover for con artists....
...The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un, by Anna Fifield, John Murray, RRP£20/Public Affairs, RRP$28 A superb inquiry into the life and politics of the North Korean dictator....
...Godsend , by John Wray, Canongate, RRP£14.99, 240 pages To the Mountains: My Life in Jihad, from Algeria to Afghanistan, by Abdullah Anas and Tam Hussein, Hurst, RRP£20, 224 pages Join our online book...
...John McFarlane: Relative value It’s three years since Barclays chairman John McFarlane told top managers he wanted to double the share price — in three years. How’s he done?...
...Empire of Enchantment: The Story of Indian Magic, by John Zubrzycki, Hurst & Company, RRP£25, 384 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...It’s in their DNA / From John Rippey, Silver Spring, MD, US...
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...Many would-be buyers are struggling to sell their city centre properties before they can move out, says John Sawyer, sales manager at Chase Buchanan....
...In 2016, he won a significant case contesting a death sentence in Hurst v Florida....
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...John Hurst, a consultant in respiratory medicine at London’s Royal Free Hospital, is involved in another MeMed trial....
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