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...Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J King Particular Books, £25, 512 pages Wavewalker: Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood William Collins, £20, 416 pages Victor Mallet is an FT journalist based in Paris...
...“Words are the only victors,” the novel proclaims at the end....
...In Chapter 7, she has Victor Frankenstein describe his creation as “handsome” — PBS altered this to “beautiful”, which appears in the final text....
...Within a few pages we are accompanying Chula in his search with a fellow classics teacher to catalogue the library at one of the abandoned palaces of the late president Banda....
...“Zarzuela has something opera does not, in that there is an element of social critique,” says Victor Págan, editorial co-ordinator of Madrid’s Teatro de la Zarzuela....
...Generals Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, the victors of Tannenberg and who ended up in effect running Germany, were, for all their faults, competent —as was the Russian Aleksei Brusilov....
...The Trading Game: A Confession by Gary Stevenson Allen Lane £25, 432 pages Private Equity by Carrie Sun Bloomsbury £20/Penguin Press $29, 352 pages John Gapper is business columnist of FT Weekend Join...
...No one could pretend that either Tokyo or Nuremberg were other than victors’ justice, and the British, French and Dutch empires were (for that moment at least) among the victors....
...Mary, or The Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout, translated by Laura Watkinson, Pushkin Press 350 pages £18.99 Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...After England beat West Germany to win the 1966 World Cup, the victors struggled to access their emotions....
...Victor Hwang, a venture capitalist who has started an advocacy group for entrepreneurship called Right to Start has some interesting thoughts on that....
...When it was first compiled in 1980 it ran to 55 pages. The 2023 edition is 455 pages long. “There have been a few subtle changes,” says Erskine Crum....
...As the academic Victor Klemperer noted in his diary: “Every day you say that a catastrophe must arrive, without knowing which one”....
...In two-thirds of contests, the ultimate victor was an independent or smaller party candidate placed second after the first round....
...The singer, whose full name is Dalal Abu Amneh, authorised her personal assistant to publish the message on Dalal’s Facebook and Instagram pages....
...John Thornhill is the FT’s innovation editor and a former Paris correspondent France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain by Julian Jackson Allen Lane £25, 445 pages/Harvard University Press $35, 480 pages...
...Turning Over the Pebbles: A Life in Cricket and in the Mind by Mike Brearley Constable £22, 304 pages Alec Russell is the FT’s foreign editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The creator of Jules Maigret understood that by writing fast he could achieve a concomitant sense of urgency on the page. Allons-y!...
...She was followed on stage by Victor Dzau, a veteran doctor in his seventies and president of the US National Academy of Medicine....
...Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World by Richard Cockett Yale £25, 464 pages Austria Behind the Mask: Politics of a Nation since 1945 by Paul Lendvai Hurst £30, 232 pages Sam Jones is...
...Eisenhower vs Adlai Stevenson II in 1956 — the original victors not only won again, but increased their margin of victory....
...Here too, Martin sets out some clear guidelines to achieve lasting peace — such as the need for victors to avoid revenge — in this illuminating and unexpectedly enjoyable read....
...And while the ultimate victor of the diamond rush was non-Jewish, with Cecil Rhodes gaining a near-monopoly of the industry with De Beers, many other leading figures, such as Barney Barnato, Sammy Marks...
...In the pages of Il Secolo d’Italia, the newspaper of Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, the headlines resemble the ones from my days in Italy....
...The result is a 233-page report and a 14-point action plan, including directives to “appoint a decolonisation co-ordinator” and “explore feasibility of establishing a memorial to the victims of colonialism...
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