OLD FUSS & FEATHERS

Julián Casanova Franco 528pp. Crítica. €22.90. Giles Tremlett El Generalísimo Franco: Power, violence and the quest for greatness 528pp. Bloomsbury. £30. Juan Carlos I, with Laurence Debray Reconcilia

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ENGINEERING THE END OF MEDIEVAL WARFARE

Collecting fields often have holy grails, and in medieval illuminated manuscripts one is the Roman d’Alexandre or Romance of Alexander. The 20cm-tall book, written in Old French and illustrated with 1

HAVING compiled many poetry anthologies for children, Fiona Waters is an experienced editor. However her new collection “A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Illustrated Poetry of the First World War” is