Book Review
What’s told is news again
Not much has changed since Philip Gibbs’ forgotten classic lifted the lid on early 20th century Fleet Street
Good-natured amateurishness
British musical theatre has nothing on the American slickness
Overarching view of the air war
These two volumes are a solid starting point for understanding the British and Commonwealth air war
Murders for early November
As the days quicken and the shadows lengthen, our thoughts turn naturally to murder
Big questions, muddled answers
Human Frontiers is an entertaining, zippy read but it feels one layer down from its ostensible subject: big ideas
When in Romania…
This book will be valuable as much for Eastern Europe specialists as for the general reader
Faith at war
It is a hardened atheist who does not ask a few favours of God as he fixes his bayonet
Chips, with everything
Mr Heffer has produced a monumental second volume on Henry ‘Chips’ Channon to match his first
The coronavirus variations
Here are three of our most praised writers with new offerings written during one or more lockdowns and that also take in the pandemic in their subject matter
Pro-imperial truths of the old world
This magnificent one volume history details the tumultuous days of the Indian army in the jungles of Burma
