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1 May 2001John Charmley is, of course, no stranger to controversy.... How tempting it would be to begin a review of his latest book in this vein.
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1 May 2001The aim of Roderick McLean's book is to assert the continuing importance of monarchs in European politics in the decades immediately before 1914.