Contemporary Review back issues from December 2006:
Latin America's true colours.
Dec 22, 2006; ... WHEN I was about to finish my studies in 2003, I was feeling very anxious about finding a job as a journalist. I saw that many of my colleagues ended up in the ever expanding world of PR or became corporate employees, and I didn't want that to happen to me. But there were two things that ...
Globalization and the new world order.
Dec 22, 2006; ... THE process of globalization is the biggest change to the world order for 350 years. This article describes both the old world order and the new world order. The process of change is called 'globalization'. This means the erosion of national boundaries and the reduced significance of ...
Rebuilding Afghanistan five years after the collapse of the Taliban.
Dec 22, 2006; ... ARMED conflict among Afghanistan's Islamic groups soon after they seized power in April 1992 and especially the Taliban's rule (1996-2001) destroyed much of the country's infrastructure as well as claiming the lives of thousands of innocent men, women and children. The people of ...
The Swiss referendum on asylum seekers.
Dec 22, 2006; ... 'I should vote. It's one of the things which identifies me as a Swiss'. So said a Swiss Italian student, considering whether or not to vote in one of the many ballots which take place in the Swiss constitutional system. Only with some difficulty can one imagine a British or American ...
Art notes: portraits by David Hockney.(Brief article)
Dec 22, 2006 ... The exhibition, David Hockney Portraits, at the London National Portrait Gallery (12 October 2006-21 January 2007) occupies nine rooms. Two of the earlier works are briefly noted here. Visitors will find much more in his work. E.M. Foster once wrote that music is not what is ...
Terrorism in Southeast Asia: Australia's security threat and response.
Dec 22, 2006; ... TERRORISM can be defined as 'a form of psychological warfare that is used to create extreme fear through the use of threat of force against non-combatant civilian military targets'. [1] Terrorism is as much about psychological maiming as it is about physical destruction. Terrorists seek to ...
Vanuatu Survivor.(Travel narrative)
Dec 22, 2006; ... THANKS to the television series, Survivor, millions have now heard of Vanuatu, that archipelago of a nation in the South Pacific. But not even mountain mavens realize that for a true 'reality' experience you need to traipse across Vanuatu's largest island, Espiritu Santo. Doing it while ...
Elsheimer and Velazquez in London.(Adam Elsheimer and Diego Velazquez)
Dec 22, 2006; ... ONLY once in four centuries have almost all the paintings of Adam Elsheimer (1578?-1610) been shown together. The exhibition travelled from Frankfurt am Main to Edinburgh before finally alighting at the Dulwich Gallery, in South London (20 September-3 December 2006). There are some 30 ...
Bob Dylan and the ageing of the West.
Dec 22, 2006; ... THE West is getting older fast, the result of fewer babies and longer life. Today, life expectancy throughout the Western world is around 80 years, compared to less than 50 at the beginning of the last century. In the UK, the percentage of the population of pensionable age ...
Art and artistic sensibility in London today.
Dec 22, 2006; ... FOR hundreds of years Europeans saw the city as a place of variety and opportunity. One of Samuel Johnson's obiter dicta was, 'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life'. However, around the year 1800--almost two decades after Dr Johnson's death--a different idea of the city ...
The road to Timbuktu.(Travel narrative)
Dec 22, 2006; ... THE name Timbuktu still stirs the imagination. That mysterious place of legendary wealth and learning which has acted as a magnet through several centuries while becoming synonymous with going to the end of the world--or even to hell. Yet there is now an airport with flights to Bamako ...
Mischief in the British Museum.(Robert Dighton )
Dec 22, 2006; ... ON 28 June 1806, a brief but tantalizing note appeared in The Times announcing that a robbery of a 'curious nature' had occurred in the British Museum. The report went on to say that a considerable number of valuable prints had been stolen, one of which was Rembrandt's Hundred Guilder, a ...
The funding of Islamist terrorism.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World. J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]19.99 (US$30.00). xx + 348 pages. ISBN 0-521-85730-9. At a moment when Muslim demands for a veto on British foreign policy are being ...
WTO's trade rounds: a call for reform.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Fair Trade For All: How Trade Can Promote Development. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]15.99. xxvii + 315 pages. ISBN 0-19-929090-3. This book is about reforming the World Trade Organization (WTO) and in particular, its ...
A themeless history of modern America.(Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Restless Giant: the United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore. James T. Patterson. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xv + 448 pages. ISBN 0-19-512216-X. James T. Patterson fails to find a theme in this, the latest, volume of the Oxford History of the United ...
The fate of democracy in Russia.(Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics. M. Steven Fish. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]45.00 (US$75.00). xviii + 313 pages. ISBN 0-521-61896-7. All is not well in Putin's Russia. The rules of democratic societies have been flouted continuously ...
The Somme remembered.(Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War)(Through German Eyes: The British and the Somme 1916)(Somme 1916: A Battlefield Companion)(The Somme)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War. Martin Gilbert. John Murray. [pounds sterling]20.00. xix + 332 pages. ISBN 0-7195-6863-3. Through German Eyes: The British and the Somme 1916. Christopher Duffy. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [pounds sterling]25.00. 383 pages. ISBN 0-297-84689-2. Somme 1916: ...
John Wilkes--the flawed Crusader for liberty.(John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty. Arthur H. Cash. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]20.00. xiii + 482pp. ISBN 0-300-10871-0. John Wilkes (1726-97) occupies a prominent place in the history of English political radicalism. His defence of the freedom of ...
Who was the real Shakespeare?(The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare. Brenda James and William D Rubinstein. Pearson Longman. [pounds sterling]25.00. 360 pages. ISBN 1-4058-2437-9. This is a startling and brave book which advances another author for Shakespeare's works--Sir Henry Neville ....
John Snow and the defeat of cholera.(The Medical Detective: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... The Medical Detective: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera. Sandra Hempel. Granta Books. [pounds sterling]18.99. xi + 306 pages. ISBN 1-86207-842-4. A great plague, like one of those with which Egypt was stricken in Pharaonic times, swept across the eastern world in 1817. It ...
A new look at the Second World War.(Blood, Sweat and Arrogance: And the Myths of Churchill's War)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Blood, Sweat and Arrogance: and the Myths of Churchill's War. Gordon Corrigan. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. [pounds sterling]20.00. 495 pages. ISBN 0-297-84623-9. Gordon Corrigan is a retired professional soldier--with the Gurkhas--and a part-time but assiduous military historian ....
Crime and the criminal.(A Land Fit for Criminals: An Insider's View of Crime, Punishment and Justice in England and Wales)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... A Land Fit for Criminals: An Insider's View of Crime, Punishment and Justice in England and Wales. David Fraser. Book Guild Publishing. [pounds sterling]17.99. xxvii + 458 pages. ISBN 1-85776-964-3. A large number of different skills are employed in the criminal justice system ...
Making sense of the Bible.(How to Read the Bible: History, Prophecy, Literature--Why Modern Readers Need to Know the Difference, and What It Means for Faith Today)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... How To Read the Bible: History, Prophecy, Literature--Why Modern Readers Need to Know the Difference, and What It Means for Faith Today. Steven L. McKenzie. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]15.99 ix + 207 pages. ISBN 0-19-516149-1. Professor McKenzie, of Rhodes Collage, ...
The world of paperbacks.(Bibliography)
Dec 22, 2006 ... HARPER PERENNIAL has recently released a treasure trove of new titles including Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch ([pounds sterling]8.99) which, after its publication in 1970, quickly became a best seller and de facto 'bible' for the feminist movement and two works from Norman Mailer. The ...
An Essay concerning Toleration and Other Writings on Law and Politics 1667-1683.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... An Essay concerning Toleration and Other Writings on Law and Politics 1667-1683. John Locke. J.R. Milton and Philip Milton, editors. Clarendon Press. [pounds sterling]65.00. xi + 458 pages. ISBN 0-19-823721-9. This latest volume in the Clarendon edition of Locke's works contains all works ...
Kristallnacht: Prelude to Disaster.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... Kristallnacht: Prelude to Disaster. Martin Gilbert. HarperPress. [pounds sterling]14.99. 314 pages. ISBN 0-00-719240-1. This latest volume in HarperPress' Making History series is concerned with one date in German history: 7 November 1938. Kristallnacht, literally translatable as 'crystal ...
The Long March.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... The Long March. Sun Shuyun. HarperPress. [pounds sterling]20.00. xi + 302 pages. ISBN 0-00-719479-X. The author, who was born in China, attended both Peking University and Oxford. As she points out, countries or regimes that have a beginning usually have a myth, whether it is the American ...
The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science. Philip Ball. William Heinemann. [pounds sterling]20.00. xi + 435 pages. ISBN 0-434-01134-7. The author, an established writer on scientific topics, here tackles one of the most interesting men in the history of ...
Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations. Antony Jay, editor. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]18.99. xvii + 541 pages. ISBN 0-19-280616-5. This is the third edition of a title, first published in 1996, that has been accorded, in spite of its relatively short life, the awesome ...
Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer. Alexander Maitland. HarperPress. [pounds sterling]25.00. xv + 528 pages. ISBN 0-00-255608-1. Few biographers are as well placed as Mr Maitland to tackle a life of the late Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003). Having written of other explorers, ...
The Beauty of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts, from the Catacombs to the Eve of the Renaissance.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... The Beauty of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts, from the Catacombs to the Eve of the Renaissance. Richard Viladesau. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]19.99. ix + 214 pages. ISBN 0-19-518811-X. In this study, which originated with O.U.P. New York, Prof ....
The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s. John Barrell. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]50.00. xv + 278 pages. ISBN 0-19-928120-3. This is the author's second study of the 1790s when the fear of the French Revolution and its developing Terror battled with a ...
Don't Mention the War: The British and the Germans since 1890.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... Don't Mention the War: The British and the Germans since 1890. John Ramsden. Little, Brown. [pounds sterling]20.00. xiv + 433 pages. ISBN 0-316-86122-7. Prof. Ramsden begins his survey in the late Victorian period and follows a chronological approach: how the background of a shared race ...
England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution, 1640-1642.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution 1640-1642. David Cressy. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xvi + 446 pages. ISBN 0-19-928090-8. The aim of this detailed study of the two years preceding the outbreak of the First Civil War is clearly set out in the author's ...
Nothing Like a Dame: The Scandals of Shirley Porter.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... Nothing Like a Dame: The Scandals of Shirley Porter. Andrew Hosken. Granta Books. [pounds sterling]20.00. xii + 372 pages. ISBN 1-86207-809-2. The current scandals and exposed corruption besetting HM's present government should not blind us to the fact that corruption is not confined to ...
The Glorious Revolution 1688: Britain's Fight for Liberty.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... The Glorious Revolution 1688: Britain's Fight for Liberty. Edward Vallance. Little, Brown. [pounds sterling]20.00. vii + 372 pages. ISBN 0-316-72681-8. This book is an exercise in historical reinterpretation. It challenges the accepted Whig view of 1688 as a 'glorious' and peaceful ...
Return to Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village in the Twenty-First Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... Return to Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village in the Twenty-First Century. Craig Taylor. Granta Books. When Ronald Blythe's book, Akenfield, was published in 1969 it was a great success. In the event, it was only the latest example of books about village life which date back to at ...
In The Bunker with Hitler 23 July 1944-29 April 1945.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... In The Bunker with Hitler 23 July 1944-29 April 1945. Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven with Francois d'Alencon. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [pounds sterling]12.99. 207 pages. ISBN 0-297-84555-1. This is an account by the last survivor from the Berlin bunker during Hitler's final weeks. This is not ...
The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III Father of the English Nation.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III Father of the English Nation. Ian Mortimer. Jonathan Cape. [pounds sterling]20.00. xxi + 536 pages. ISBN 0-224-07301-X. Edward III inherited the throne when fifteen in 1327 and reigned until 1377. He succeeded his murdered father, Edward II but not ...
Roman Britain: A New History.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... Roman Britain: A New History. Guy de la Bedoyere. Thames & Hudson. [pounds sterling]24.95. 288 pages. ISBN 0-500-5140-2. With its numerous illustrations (285 of which 75 are in colour) this is a most welcome history of Roman Britain because it shows readers what life was like. The author ...
Seventeenth-Century British Poetry 1603-1660.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... Seventeenth-Century British Poetry 1603-1660. John P. Rumrich and Gregory Chaplin, editors. W.W. Norton. [pounds sterling]10.99. xxii + 999 pages. ISBN 0-393-96998-9. This new collection replaces two earlier Norton Critical Editions: Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets and George Herbert and ...
Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought. Isaiah Berlin. Henry Hardy, editor. Chatto & Windus. [pounds sterling]25.00. 1x + 292 pages. ISBN 0-701-17909-0. This work is the longest ever written by Berlin and he wrote it in 1950-1952 in preparation for ...
British Civilians in the Front Line: Air Raids, Productivity and Wartime Culture, 1939-45.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... British Civilians in the Front Line: Air Raids, Productivity and Wartime Culture, 1939-45. Helen Jones. Manchester University Press. [pounds sterling]45.00. ix + 217 pages. ISBN 0-7190-7290-5. This is a fascinating study that will do much to increase our understanding of civilian life ...
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: A Casebook.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: A Casebook. Elsie B. Michie, editor. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]45.00. viii + 212 pages. ISBN 0-19-517778-9. This new volume in O.U.P.'s Casebooks in Criticism originated with O.U.P. New York. It includes an introduction by the editor and nine ...
Wavell: Soldier & Statesman.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... Wavell: Soldier & Statesman. Victoria Schofield. John Murray. [pounds sterling]30.00. xv + 512 pages. ISBN 0-7195-6320-8. The author, an established expert on the politics of the sub-continent and south Asia, here turns her attention to one of Britain's greatest World War II commanders who ...
A Village in Sussex: The History of Kingston-near-Lewes.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... A Village in Sussex: The History of Kingston-near-Lewes. Charles Cooper. [pounds sterling]29.50. xii + 371 pages. ISBN 1-84511-190-7. This volume, the last written by Prof. Cooper before his death in 2005, is a history of his village, Kingston-near-Lewes which nestles between Sussex's ...
Shakespeare's Humanism.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... Shakespeare's Humanism. Robin Headlam Wells. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]48.00 (US$85.00). x + 278 pages. ISBN 0-521-82438-9. This exciting study of Shakespeare examines the writer as a man of the Renaissance who shared its view that there was a 'universal human nature' ....
A Night at the Majestic: Proust and the Great Modernist Dinner Party of 1922.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... A Night at the Majestic: Proust and the Great Modernist Dinner Party of 1922. Richard Davenport-Hines. Faber. [pounds sterling]14.99. 358 pages. ISBN 0-571-22008-8. On 18 May 1922, 'a rich, cultivated and cosmopolitan English couple', Violet and Sydney Schiff, gave a dinner at the Majestic ...
Scourge and Fire: Savonarola and Renaissance Florence.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... Scourge and Fire: Savonarola and Renaissance Florence. Lauro Martines. Jonathan Cape. [pounds sterling]20.00. xvi + 336 pages. ISBN 0-224-07252-8. Prof. Martines here combines his expert knowledge of Florentine history with a first-hand knowledge of the city to examine the career and ...
The Importance of Being Earnest.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... The Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wilde. Michael Patrick Gillespie, editor. W.W. Norton. [pounds sterling]6.99 p.b. xii + 209 pages. ISBN 0-393-92753-9. In his Preface, Prof. Gillespie argues that the play is not just a 'charming and whimsical farce' but one with 'considerable ...
The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life Story of a Masterpiece.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life Story of a Masterpiece. Carola Hicks. Chatto & Windus. [pounds sterling]25.00. x + 358 pages. ISBN 0-701-17463-3. This is not just a history of the creation of the Bayeux Tapestry but of 'the effect is has had on people and the many different ways in which ...
Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors. James Reston, Jnr. Faber and Faber. [pounds sterling]20.00. xx + 364 pages. ISBN 0-571-22126-2. This title, first published in the US by Double-day in 2005, is concerned with the conflict between a united Spanish ...
Mozart: The Early Years, 1756-1781.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... Mozart: The Early Years 1756-1781. Stanley Sadie. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xxv + 644 pages. ISBN 0-19-816529-3. Mozart: The Golden Years 1781-1791. H.C. Robbins Landon. Thames & Hudson. [pounds sterling]9.95. 272 pages. ISBN 0-500-51296-5. Sadly Mr Sadie died before ...
The King's Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... The King's Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church. G.W. Bernard. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]29.95. xii + 736 pages. ISBN 0-300-10908-3. Prof. Bernard makes his approach clear in his opening sentence: 'Henry VIII was largely responsible for the break ...
1854-2004: The Story of the National Gallery of Ireland.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... 1854-2004: The Story of the National Gallery of Ireland. Peter Somerville-Large. Paul Holberton. [pounds sterling]40.00 (US $100.00). 477 pages. ISBN 1-904288-08-1. In 1854, the 'Imperial Parliament' in London passed an act to establish a National Gallery in Dublin and this new institution ...
The Heart of a Goof.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... The Heart of a Goof. P.G. Wodehouse. Everyman. [pounds sterling]10.99. 248 pages. ISBN 1-84159-145-9. Full Moon. P.G. Wodehouse. Everyman. [pounds sterling]10.99. 261 pages. ISBN 1-84159-144-0. Everyman has added these two works to their Wodehouse collection which began in 2000. The Heart ...
Fightback! Labour's Traditional Right in the 1970s and 1980s.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... Fightback! Labour's Traditional Right in the 1970s and 1980s. Dianne Hayter. Manchester University Press. [pounds sterling]60.00. xii + 211 pages. ISBN 0-7190-7270-0. This is the second title in M.U.P's series, Critical Labour Movement Studies and in effect describes the creation of the ...
The Emergency: Neutral Ireland 1939-45.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... The Emergency: Neutral Ireland 1939-45. Brian Girvin. Macmillan. [pounds sterling]25.00. xxiii + 385 pages. ISBN 1-4050-0010-4. As Prof. Girvin makes clear, the Republic's neutrality during the Second World War remains essential to an understanding of how many Irishmen see themselves. An ...
London: An Architectural History.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... London: An Architectural History. Anthony Sutcliffe. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]30.00. xii + 349 pages. ISBN 0-300-11006-5. This delightful book is something of a companion to the author's earlier Paris: An Architectural History. His aim is to seek 'the distinctive character ...
Is There a Duty to Obey the Law?(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... Is There a Duty to Obey the Law? Christopher Heath Wellman and A. John Simmons. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]30.00 (US$50.00). xiii + 200 pages. ISBN 0-521-53784-3. This investigation, which originated with C.U.P. New York, is part of the 'For and Against' series. It ...
An Introduction to Sustainable Development.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... An Introduction to Sustainable Development. Jennifer A. Elliott. Routledge. [pounds sterling]70.00. xvii + 283 pages. ISBN 0-415-33558-2. This is the third edition of a text that was first published in 1994 and reflects the new insights and lessons that have come to light during the last ...
Elizabeth's Spy Master: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War that Saved England.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... Elizabeth's Spy Master: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War that Saved England. Robert Hutchinson. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [pounds sterling]20.00. 399 pages. ISBN 0-297-84613-2. The author's previous book, on the last days of Henry VIII, was well received and in this present study he ...
A History of the English Language.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... A History of the English Language. Richard Hogg and David Denison, editors. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]75.00 (US$ 140.00). xiii + 495 pages. ISBN 0-531-66227-3. This stimulating collection of essays is aimed at 'senior undergraduates' as well as the general reader and ...
The Almost Impossible Ally: Harold Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... The Almost Impossible Ally: Harold Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle. Peter Mangold. I.B. Tauris. [pounds sterling]18.99. vii + 275 pages. ISBN 1-85043-800-5. The post-1940 career of General de Gaulle illustrates the adage that pride does not precede but follows a fall. In Macmillan, de ...
Scandals in Past and Contemporary Politics.(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006 ... Scandals in Past and Contemporary Politics. John Garrard and James L. Newell, editors. Manchester University Press. [pounds sterling]55.00. xii + 242 pages. ISBN 0-7190-6551-8. This year has been marked by major scandals, financial and sexual, both in the United States and in Britain: ...