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NAPOLEON, ALEXANDER AND 1812 WILL NEVER BE SEEN IN THE SAME LIGHT
RUSSIA AGAINST NAPOLEON: THE BATTLE FOR EUROPE, 1807-1814 By Dominic Lieven (Allen Lane, Pounds 30) WHEN US envoy Averell Harriman...
Evening Standard; London (UK), 10/08/09 by SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE · More from publication -
Chechnya, forgotten land of hell
The Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya by Asne Seierstad translated by Nadia Christensen ( Virago, Pounds 12.99 )
ANYONE wanting to...
Evening Standard; London (UK), 03/10/08 by SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE · More from publication -
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It has been a monarchical week -- despite the election of a republican in Australia. I don't just mean the Queen's wedding anniversary, Ugandan...
Spectator, The, 12/01/07 by MONTEFIORE, SIMON SEBAG · More from publication -
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Stalin and the Rothschilds is one of the more bizarre connections that I discovered while writing a book on the dictator's early life. Stalin...
Spectator, The, 05/19/07 by MONTEFIORE, SIMON SEBAG · More from publication -
Painting the town red
On 10 May 1907, almost exactly a hundred years ago, a handsome and roguish young Georgian named Soso Djugashvili disembarked from the Harwich...
Evening Standard; London (UK), 05/11/07 by SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE · More from publication -
How Stephen the Small came to save Montenegro and afterwards
REALM OF THE BLACK MOUNTAIN by Elizabeth Roberts Hurst Publishing, ÃÂã25, pp. 520, ISBN 9781850657712 . ÃÂã20 (plus...
Spectator, The, 04/21/07 by Montefiore, Simon Sebag · More from publication -
A master of careful betrayal
TALLEYRAND, that great symbol of betrayal in one of the most colourful (and over-covered) periods of European history, is, like his...
Evening Standard; London (UK), 03/05/07 by SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE · More from publication -
Monsters of the holy cause
Sacred Causes: Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to al Qaeda by Michael Burleigh
MICHAEL Burleigh is a scholar of...
Evening Standard; London (UK), 10/16/06 by SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE · More from publication -
From Georgia with love
It is not often that one stays in a luxury hotel that one once saw raked with machinegun fire in the midst of a savage civil war. But then...
Evening Standard; London (UK), 05/26/06 by SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE · More from publication -
Glistening with beauty and evil
The People's Act of Love by James Meek THE Russian Civil War was an apocalyptic conflict in which the grandeur and passions of the Russian...
Evening Standard; London (UK), 07/11/05 by SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE · More from publication
