Literary Review

August 2007

Features:

• WILLIAMPALMER
• MAXEGREMONTWorld War One: A Short History Norman Stone Diary of a Dead Officer: Being the Posthumous Papers of Arthur Graeme West Arthur Graeme West
• RICHARDOVERYAfter the Reich: From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift Giles MacDonogh Endgame 1945: Victory, Retribution, Liberation David Stafford
• EVANMAWDSLEYAbsolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War – A Modern History Chris Bellamy
• SIMONHEFFERThe Last Thousand Days of the British Empire Peter Clarke
• PAULADDISONA History of Modern Britain Andrew Marr
• MICHAELBURLEIGHThe Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796 Christopher Duggan
• ALLANMASSIEThe Perilous Crown: Ruling France 1814–1848 Munro Price
• DOMINICSANDBROOKBarbarism and Civilisation: A History of Europe in our Time Bernard Wasserstein
• CHRISTOPHERCOKERNixon: The Invincible Quest Conrad Black Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power Robert Dallek
• PETERWASHINGTONJosephConrad: A Life Zdzislaw Najder The Several Lives of JosephConrad John Stape
• AC GRAYLINGLocke: A Biography Roger Woolhouse
• PHILIPPULLMANTALKS TOCLAUDIAFITZHERBERT
• CAROLEANGIERPeeling the OnionG̈nter Grass
• JOHNMARTINROBINSONGod’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain Rosemary Hill
• ANDROLINKLATERSuffer and Survive: Gas Attacks, Miners’ Canaries, Spacesuits and the Bends – The Extreme Life of Dr J S Haldane Martin Goodman
• ANDREWLYCETTStanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer Tim Jeal Dr Livingstone, I Presume? Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers and Empire Claire Pettitt
• HUGHMASSINGBERDPrincess Margaret: A Life Unravelled Tim Heald
• DAVIDGILMOURIndian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire Alex von Tunzelmann The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan Yasmin Khan
• CHARLESALLENGandhi: The Man, His People and the EmpireRajmohan Gandhi
• DAVIDSMITHThe Book of Love: In Search of the Kamasutra James McConnachie
• SANKARSHANTHAKURIndia After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy Ramachandra Guha Holy Warriors: A Journey into the Heart of Indian Fundamentalism Edna Fernandes
• LUCYLETHBRIDGEMrs Woolf and the Servants: The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service Alison Light
• VIRGINIAIRONSIDEClean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity Virginia Smith
• JANERIDLEYSingled Out: How Two Million Women SurvivedWithout Men After the First World War Virginia Nicholson
• DAVIDCESARANI The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil Philip Zimbardo
• JWMTHOMPSONThe Plot Against Pepys James Long and Ben Long
• JAMES FLEMINGONFOURBOOKS ABOUTTREES
• SAMLEITHMy Revolutions Hari Kunzru
• LEOMCKINSTRYThe Industrial Revolutionaries: The Creation of the Modern World 1776 –1914 Gavin Weightman
• MICHAELCORENChurchill’s Cigar: A Lifelong Love Affair Through War and Peace Stephen McGinty
• JOHNDUGDALEAway Amy Bloom
• JOHNDEFALBEThe Kingdom of Ashes Robert Edric
• FRANCIS KINGSecrets of the Sea Nicholas Shakespeare
• FRANCES WILSONThe Birthday Party Panos Karnezis
• CHRISTOPHERHARTThe Dig John Preston
• MATTTHORNEAbsurdistan Gary Shteyngart
• LINDYBURLEIGHThe Sirens of Baghdad Yasmina Khadra
• DANGWYNNE-JONES Coward on the Beach James Delingpole
• SIMONBAKERONFIRSTNOVELS
• LUCYPOPESCU
• JESSICAMANN
• SUSANCROSLAND