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Peter Caddick-Adams’s Dual Biography of Rommel and Montgomery Is Doubly Good

A double biography of World War II foes Rommel and Montgomery is doubly successful, writes Michael Korda.

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To quote William Faulkner, “The past is never dead—it is not even past.” Of no great event is that more true than of World War II, in the shattered debris of which, politically speaking, we are still living, and the history of which we are still trying to make sense....

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