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The Clattering Train

Peter Clarke, The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power and Guilt, Bloomsbury Press, 2016, 418 pages, $30.00. ISBN 978–1620406601

This is not a book focused upon Churchill, though the man and some of his writings (chiefly ) do figure throughout. Instead, Peter Clarke’s latest history can be read

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