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John Turner, British Politics and the Great War, Coalition and Conflict 1915–1918 (London: Yale University Press, 1992), 400pp., £30.00/$50.00 ISBN 0 300 05046 6.

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Contemporary European History , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , July 1994 , pp. 235 - 240
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