SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR How did one man go from Nazi Youth indoctrination to English footballing icon? Bert Trautmann is a foot

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British rule of India brought together two very different traditions of scholarship about language, whose conjuncture led to several intellectual breakthroughs