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London Review of Books Christmas Books

Who Mended Pierre’s Leg?

David A. Bell

  • Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age by Ruth Harris

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David A. Bell teaches at Johns Hopkins. The First Total War is now available in paperback.

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