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One Per Cent

Jonathan Steinberg

  • The World’s Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild by Niall Ferguson

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Jonathan Steinberg, Reader in Modern European History at Cambridge, is the author of The Deutsche Bank and its Gold Transactionsin the Second World War.

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‘What a man this is, with his crowd of women around him!’
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Mr Shepperd to you
R.W. Johnson on Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 by Ross McKibbin

Versailles with Panthers
James Davidson pays tribute to the Persians

Could it have been different?
Eric Hobsbawm: Budapest 1956