http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/jason_webster en http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/01/july-plot-hitler-jones http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/01/july-plot-hitler-jones Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:31:46 GMT Jason Webster Countdown to Valkyrie: the July Plot to Assassinate Hitler Nigel Jones Frontline Books, 308pp, £19.99

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]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/06/norman-lewis-life-evans-writer http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/06/norman-lewis-life-evans-writer Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:24:21 GMT Jason Webster Semi-Invisible Man: the Life of Norman Lewis Julian Evans Jonathan Cape, 792pp, £25

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]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/04/islam-spain-europe-muslims http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/04/islam-spain-europe-muslims Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT Jason Webster The conflict between Islam and the west can be traced back to a myth that inaccurately painted Muslims as the killers of a Christian hero. Now, scholars are beginning to reassess the fundamental role that Muslims played in shaping western civilisation. God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe (570-1215) David Levering Lewis W W Norton, 384pp, £17.99

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