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THIS MONTH’S PULPIT is written by Henry Hitchings. His latest book is The Language Wars: A History o f Proper English (John Murray).

RACHEL POLONSKY is the author of Molotov’s Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History (Faber & Faber).

RICHARD HOLLOWAY’s most recent book is Between the Monster and the Saint (Canongate).

JAKE ADELSTEIN i s the author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Constable).

MICHAEL BURLEIGH’s Moral Combat: A History of World War II is available in paperback from HarperPress.

ANNE SEBBA is the author of Jennie Churchill: Winston’s American Mother (John Murray). That Woman: A Life of Wallis Simpson will be published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in August.

PAUL CARTLEDGE i s t he A G Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Cambridge University, and t he author of Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past.

CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY i s an award-winning journalist and author. He is still waiting for his broadcasting, blues guitar and cultural troublemaking to achieve similar recognition.

PETER MARSHALL i s Professor of History at the University of Warwick.

DONALD SASSOON is the author of The Culture of the Europeans (2006) and Professor o f Comparative European History at Queen Mary University of London.

JONATHAN BECKMAN has just won a 2010 RSL/Jerwood Award f o r Non-Fiction.

LITERARY REVIEW April 2011

PULPIT

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HENRY HITCHINGS

BIOGRAPHY

THAT’S LIFE

HISTORY

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MALISE RUTHVEN Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism John Calvert MICHAEL BURLEIGH Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller JANE RIDLEY Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor Hugo Vickers ANNE SEBBA The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History – From the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill Mary S Lovell PETER MARSHALL Sir Walter Raleigh: In Life and Legend Mark Nicholls & Penry Williams MICHAEL FATHERS Captain Cook: Master of the Seas Frank McLynn STEPHEN AMIDON His Father’s Son: Earl and Tiger Woods Tom Callahan

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RICHARD HOLLOWAY Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty Simon Baron-Cohen JOHN GRAY Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy Pascal Bruckner ANTHONY DANIELS ON FIVE BOOKS ABOUT GROWING OLD

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RICHARD HOLMES Britain’s War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War David Edgerton DONALD SASSOON Streetlife: The Untold History of Europe’s Twentieth Century Leif Jerram PAUL JOHNSON Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder and the Cold War in the Caribbean Alex Von Tunzelmann PAUL CARTLEDGE Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great’s Empire Robin Waterfield JONATHAN BECKMAN Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe Ulinka Rublack

MEMOIRS

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RACHEL POLONSKY The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them Elif Batuman MICK BROWN Memoirs of a Dervish Robert Irwin JANE THYNNE Animal Magic Andrew Barrow Problem Child Caradoc King Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn and Henry Cockburn Mennonite in a Little Black Dress Rhoda Janzen

BACK TO THE USSR

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OLEG GORDIEVSKY Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979–89 Rodric Braithwaite NORMAN STONE Russia’s Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall Jonathan Haslam

Editor: NANCY SLADEK Deputy Editor: TOM FLEMING Editor-at-Large: JEREMY LEWIS Assistant Editor: JONATHAN BECKMAN Editorial Assistant: ALEXANDER BLASDEL Contributing Editors: MICHAEL BURLEIGH,

SARA WHEELER, PHILIP WOMACK Advertising Manager: TERRY FINNEGAN Classified Advertising: DAVID STURGE

Founding Editor: DR ANNE SMITH Founding Father: AUBERON WAUGH

Cover illustration by Chris Riddell

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