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Dun-Coloured Dust

Thomas de Waal

  • Russia's War by Richard Overy
  • Stalingrad by Antony Beevor

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Thomas de Waal has been covering the Caucasus and Chechnya since 1994, as Caucasus editor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting in London. He is researching a book on the Black Sea.

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