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Dominic explicitly mentions reading this book about three or four years ago, saying it made a massive impression on him. The book argues that what happened in Spain during the civil war, including the dehumanization of opposition, was similar to what happened in Central and Eastern Europe under Nazism.

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Mentioned in passing when discussing what happened after the English Civil War period - Dominic asks why people stopped fighting and started 'going to coffeehouses and talking about the South Sea bubble and reading Gulliver's Travels' instead.

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Referenced when discussing France and Algeria, with the speaker noting that the plot of The Day of the Jackal relates to the tensions around Algerian independence and attempted coups against de Gaulle.