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During the First World, the Germans evolved a tactic known as ‘defence in depth’. Instead of concentrating their forces along a front line, they deployed nests of machine gunners across a broad band and kept a substantial force in the rear for a counter-attack. There is something of the defence in depth about Jay Winter’sContinue reading “Response to Review no. 72”

To write the history of the biggest financial institution of the nineteenth century in the space of five years – the time granted to me when I was commissioned to write the two hundred history of N.M. Rothschild & Sons – was by any standards a great challenge. The task was not made easier byContinue reading “Response to Review no. 213”