Review of Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Philip Mansel John Murray, 480 pp, £10.99, September 2011, ISBN…
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Man with a mission
Review of Patriot of Persia by Christopher de Bellaigue Bodley Head, 310pp, £20
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Review of The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris David McCullogh Simon & Schuster, 560pp, £25 Of all the cities in…
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Toward the end of 2010, a small book by a 93-year-old man unexpectedly reached the summit of the bestseller list…
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In October 2000 most of the children invited by Dr. Emma Williams to her son Archie’s seventh birthday party failed…
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Review of Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War Two by Ben Macintyre Bloomsbury,…
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Noam Chomsky’s new book, Hopes and Prospects, leads me to a conclusion that will startle his admirers and critics alike:…
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It’s Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street A Jerusalem Memoir. By Emma Williams. Foreword by Brian…
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Review of England’s Last War against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-42 by Colin Smith Weidenfeld, 490 pp, £25.00, July 2009, ISBN…
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* 1948: A Soldier’s Tale, the Bloody Road to Jerusalem by Uri Avnery, translated by Christopher Costello * Israel’s Vicious…
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