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ISSUE 16 SUMMER 2011 NOT FORGETTING... IMPORTANT TITLES RECENTLY

REVIEWED IN THE OLDIE

• With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 by David Stevenson • Nagaland: A Journey to India’s

Forgotten Frontier by Jonathan Glancey • Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the

First Crisis of Globalisation by Gordon Brown • Jerusalem by Simon Sebag Montefiore • The Mind’s Eye by Oliver Sacks • No Angel: The Secret Life of Bernie Ecclestone by Tom Bower • The Popes: A History by John Julius Norwich

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3. OF BIBLICAL IMPORTANCE Christopher Howse celebrates the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible

4. BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR G K Chesterton Ian Ker; Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand; Treasures from the Attic Mirjam Pressler with Gerti Elias; Behind the Black Door Sarah Brown; Problem Child Caradoc King; Treblinka Chil Rajchman; Graven with Diamonds Nicola Shulman; Rifleman Victor Gregg with Rick Stroud; Animal Magic Andrew Barrow; Stalin’s Romeo Spy Emil Draitser; Samurai John Man

7. PICK OF THE PAPERBACKS 9. FICTION Chapman’s Odyssey Paul Bailey; Other People’s Money Justin Cartwright; Anatomy of a Disappearance Hisham Matar

10. HISTORY Mission Accomplished David Stafford; The Scramble for China Robert Bickers; The Anatomy of a Moment Javier Cercas; The War That Never Was Duff HartDavis; Spanish Gold David Cordingly; The Dead Hand David E Hoffman; The Pursuit of Italy David Gilmour

13. SCIENCE Zero Degrees of Empathy Simon Baron-Cohen; Moonwalking with Einstein Joshua Foer; The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee

14. HOME AND ABROAD The Road of Bones Jeremy Poolman; Deep Country Neil Ansell

15. CITIES Peter Lewis on three books about the city

16. TRUE CRIME People Who Eat Darkness Richard Lloyd Parry; The Murder Room Michael Capuzzo; Iphigenia in Forest Hills Janet Malcolm

18. ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY Romantic Moderns Alexandra Harris; Young Michelangelo John T Spike; Norman Parkinson Robin Muir

20. CURRENT AFFAIRS The New North Laurence C Smith; Talking to Terrorists Peter Taylor; Civilization Niall Ferguson 21. AFGHANISTAN Bomb Hunters Sean Rayment; Dead Men Risen Toby Harnden

22. GARDENING The Morville Year Katherine Swift; The Founding Gardeners Andrea Wulf; The Omnipotent Magician Jane Brown

26. REPRINTS My Dog Tulip J R Ackerley; Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other Essays Gay Talese; HRF Keating reprints; The Diary of a Provincial Lady EM Delafield; Below Stairs Margaret Powell

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Published by The Oldie magazine, 65 Newman Street, London W1T 3EG Editorial panel: Richard Ingrams, Jeremy Lewis, Sonali Chapman, James Pembroke, Brian MacArthur, Christopher Silvester Reviews Editor: Sonali Chapman Design: Joseph Buckley, Silvia Baz Reviewers: Jonathan Beckman, Sonali Chapman, Jennie Erdal, Tom Fleming, Christopher Howse, Richard Ingrams, Lucy Lethbridge, Peter Lewis, Robert Low, Brian MacArthur, James Pembroke, Christopher Silvester Publisher: James Pembroke Advertising: Lisa Martin, Anthon Linton, Azmi Elkholy For advertising enquiries, call Lisa Martin on 020 7487 8405 For editorial enquiries, call 020 7436 8801 or email editorial@theoldie.co.uk

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