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April 2006 Issue David Cesarani Foiling The Führer Killing Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots Against the Führer By Roger Moorhouse In the Bunker with Hitler: 23 July 1944 – 29 April 1945 By Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven with François d’Alençon (Translated by John Gilbert) LR
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In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain.
David Abulafia goes in search of the real El Cid.
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