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1 Nov 2011Jan Guillou is a well-known Swedish author, journalist and political commentator.
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1 Dec 2011One would naturally expect the two books under review, one a history published by an academic press and the other a novel, to be very different treatments of their chosen theme. Yet it is the similarities between them that consistently strike the reader.
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1 Dec 2011I was 16 or 17 when I first read Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy, and 26 when I completed my PhD on shell shock in First World War Britain.