Geoffrey Best
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A peace conference held in Holland in 1899 in fact ended by rewriting the laws of war, says Geoffrey Best. Published February 24 2011
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Geoffrey Best reviews a book on the British Second World War headquarters by Richard Holmes Published August 10 2009
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Geoffrey Best looks at the life of A.P. Herbert, writer, wit and MP, who played a major role in the liberalisation of British life with his reform of the draconian divorce laws.
Published May 14 2009
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Geoffrey Best considers Winston Churchill’s growing alarm about the possibility of nuclear war, and his efforts to ensure that its horrors never happened. Published September 16 2005
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Geoffrey Best considers two new titles on the great leader.
Published April 13 2003
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Geoffrey Best, doyen of Victorian history, demonstrates that not all leading scholars start out as swots
Published April 17 2001
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Geoffrey Best reviews three new books on the Napoleonic era and European warfare
Published June 30 1995
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by Raymond Aron
Published August 31 1984
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The role of the Church in wartime has always been ambiguous. Today, with the question of nuclear weapons to the fore, churchmen are again in conflict over the moral issues involved. With this in mind, Geoffrey Best considers an earlier occasion when the Church found itself in a similar dilemma.
Published August 31 1983
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