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Guidance from the Greatest by Gavin Mortimer (Constable, 208 pages, £14.99)

Keep calm and carry on

In uncertain times like these, is there any comfort to be had from looking back on past crises? Gavin Mortimer thinks so. He draws on more than 200 interviews with those who lived through the Second World War to identify 12 qualities

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