Category Archives: reviews

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Review of Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Philip Mansel John Murray, 480 pp, £10.99, September 2011, ISBN…

Review of Patriot of Persia by Christopher de Bellaigue Bodley Head, 310pp, £20

Review of The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris David McCullogh Simon & Schuster, 560pp, £25 Of all the cities in…

Toward the end of 2010, a small book by a 93-year-old man unexpectedly reached the summit of the bestseller list…

In October 2000 most of the children invited by Dr. Emma Williams to her son Archie’s seventh birthday party failed…

Review of Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War Two by Ben Macintyre Bloomsbury,…

Noam Chomsky’s new book, Hopes and Prospects, leads me to a conclusion that will startle his admirers and critics alike:…

It’s Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street A Jerusalem Memoir. By Emma Williams. Foreword by Brian…

Review of England’s Last War against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-42 by Colin Smith Weidenfeld, 490 pp, £25.00, July 2009, ISBN…

* 1948: A Soldier’s Tale, the Bloody Road to Jerusalem by Uri Avnery, translated by Christopher Costello * Israel’s Vicious…