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Redheads in Normandy

R.W. Johnson

  • The British General Election of 1997 by David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh
  • Labour's Landslide by Andrew Geddes and Jonathan Tonge
  • Britain Votes 1997 edited by Pippa Norris and Neil Gavin
  • Collapse of Stout Party: The Decline and Fall of the Tories by Julian Crtitchley and Morrison Halcrow
  • Les Election Legislatives, 25 Mai-1er Juin 1997: Le president desavoue

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R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.

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