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HIS FINEST HOUR Gregor Dallas on Nelson's Perfect Timing a t Trafalgar

Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson on French Terror

Nigel Jones on American Independence

Richard Overy on Wartime Children

Rome Falls * Singapore Burns * Turkey Rises

Britain carries on up the Khyber Henrietta Garnett lauds Sybille Bedford Richard Boston defends William Cobbett william palmer loves e e cummings Paul Johnson in Arcadia * Harry Mount i n the East End

FICTION: Umberto Eco, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Banville, Nick Hornby. ..