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- ↑ "The Great Silence 1918-1920 by Juliet Nicolson | Book review". the Guardian. 15 November 2009.
- ↑ Nicolson, Juliet (30 December 2021). Frostquake.
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- ↑ "Abdication". Bloomsbury Publishing.
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