Contemporary Review articles from December 2008

Contemporary Review archives from December 2008

The limits of expansion: the European union and NATO.(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
December 22, 2008... BIG is not necessarily beautiful, but the current agendas of both the European Union and NATO is one of steady aggrandizement. The more members each can take, it would seem, the better. Both institutions have come to be seen as two sides of the...

Martin Buber: philosopher and visionary.(Biography)
December 22, 2008... Editor's Note: In November the German Education Minister Or Annette Schavan, on an official visit to Israel to mark the country's sixtieth anniversary, announced that the German government would fund a new Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the...

Wole Soyinka on Nigeria.(You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir. Wole Soyinka. Methuen. [pounds sterling]19.99. xx + 626 pages. ISBN 978-0-413-77628-0. Wole Soyinka, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, has produced two novels, six collections of...

A balanced view of IAN paisley.(Paisley: Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Paisley: Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland. Steve Bruce. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]25. xii + 293 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-928102-2. A 'malign colossus', a 'man of wrath', someone displaying 'persecuting zeal' - these...

BBC Radio Four and the nation.(Life on Air: A History of Radio Four.)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Life on Air: A History of Radio Four. David Hendy. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xiii + 518 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-924881-0. The BBC began in radio, and that perhaps is where its true strength lies. Much can be forgiven...

Seeing through V.S. Naipaul's eyes.(A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling. V.S. Naipaul. Picador. [pounds sterling]16.99. vii + 194 pages. ISBN 978-0-330-48524-1. The title, A Writer's People, does cover everything and everyone in the book from Virgil to Anthony...

The British stage since the war.(State of the Nation: British Theatre Since 1945)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945. Michael Billington. Faber and Faber. [pounds sterling]25.00. vii + 435 pages. ISBN 978-0-571-21034-3. Michael Billington, the life-long theatre critic, covers the theatrical history of...

Nureyev remembered.(Rudolf Nureyev: The Life)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Rudolf Nureyev: The Life. Julie Kavanagh. Penguin Fig Tree. [pounds sterling]25.00. 787 pages. ISBN 978-1-905-49015-8. The merit of this biography lies in its comprehensive detail. Nureyev's life is laid before us from birth to death,...

Kipling and India.(Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling. Charles Allen. Little, Brown. [pounds sterling]20.00. xix + 426 pages, ISBN 978-0-316-72655-9. The author's publishers do not brag when they say of Charles Allen that 'few are as well...

New literature guides from Cambridge.(The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English; The Cambridge Introduction to the Nineteenth-Century American Novel)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English. Adrian Hunter. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]40.00 (US$75.00). vii + 202 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-68112-4. Publ. Oct. 07 and The Cambridge Introduction to the...

New and noteworthy.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The works of the late Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjeman, continue to pour forth from his various publishers of whom JOHN MURRAY is perhaps the foremost. The latest includes a new edition of the poet's autobiography in verse, Summoned by Bells...

The world of paperbacks.(Bibliography)
December 22, 2008... JOHN MURRAY has recently published a paperback of Donald Thomas' Freedom's Frontier: Censorship in Modern Britain ([pounds sterling]10.99), an important book which exposes the hypocrisy of the contemporary liberal intelligentsia's claim to free...

Refugees and Expellees in Post-War Germany.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Refugees and Expellees in Post-War Germany. Ian Connor. Manchester University Press. [pounds sterling]55.00. xv + 266 pages. ISBN 978-0-07190-6886-7. Students of the Second World War are familiar with horrible first-hand accounts of the plight...

Pilgrims: New World Settlers & the Call of Home.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Pilgrims: New World Settlers & the Call of Home. Susan Hardman Moore. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xv + 316 pages. ISBN 978-0-300-11718-9. One of the great unasked questions in US history is not why Puritans went to New...

Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History. John Reader. William Heinemann. [pounds sterling]18.99. xvi + 315 pages. ISBN 978-0-4340-1318-0. The potato is South American by origin and was developed there some 8,000 years ago. It arrived...

Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism. Donald Sassoon. HarperPress. [pounds sterling]14.99. 187 pages. ISBN 978-0-00-719242-7. Italian politics has always liked grand gestures, from the Roman triumphal marches to Garibaldi. Then, in 1922,...

The Naked Man: A Study of the Male Body.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Naked Man: A Study of the Male Body. Desmond Morris. Jonathan Cape. [pounds sterling]18.99. viii + 280 pages. ISBN 978-0-224-08042-2. One noticeable feature of modern advertising is the increased use of male models, frequently with little...

God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars. Michael Braddick. Allen Lane. [pounds sterling]30.00. xxvi + 758 pages. ISBN 978-0-7139-9632-6. It is tempting to think of the civil wars and republican interlude as a...

Catherine Parr: Henry VIII's Last Love.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Catherine Parr: Henry VIII's Last Love. Susan James. Tempus Publishing. [pounds sterling]20.00. 348 pages. ISBN 978-0-7524-4591-5. As Dr James shows, the Tudor era was 'an age of families' in which 'nepotism was not a pernicious anomaly [but]...

The British Monarchy and Ireland: 1800 to the Present.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The British Monarchy and Ireland: 1800 to the Present. James Loughlin. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]55.00 (US$99.00). xv + 398 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-84372-0. As talk increases of a visit to the Irish Republic by The Queen, this...

The Assassination of the Prime Minister: John Bellingham and the Murder of Spencer Perceval.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Assassination of the Prime Minister: John Bellingham and the Murder of Spencer Perceval. David C. Hanrahan. Sutton Publishing. [pounds sterling]20.00. vii + 214 pages. ISBN 978-0-7509-4400-7. Dr Hanrahan begins his story of the only...

Beyond the Law: The Bush Administration's Unlawful Responses in the 'War' on Terror.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Beyond the Law: The Bush Administration's Unlawful Responses in the 'War' on Terror. Jordan J. Paust. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]45.00 (US$85.00). xiv + 311 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-88426-6. This book is an extended indictment of...

Under Fire: Britain's Fire Service at War.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Under Fire: Britain's Fire Service at War. John Lecte. Sutton Publishing. [pounds sterling]14.99. viii + 151 pages. ISBN 978-0-7509-4132-7. This is the author's third book on the Second World War's 'home front'. The first fact to emerge in...

George Gissing: a life.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... George Gissing: A Life. Paul Delany. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [pounds sterling]25.00. xiii + 444 pages. ISBN 978-0-297-85212-4. George Gissing remains one of the most fascinating writers of the late Victorian period. To Dr Delany he wrote about...

The Great Filth: The War against Disease in Victorian England.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Great Filth: The War against Disease in Victorian England. Stephen Halliday. Sutton Publishing. [pounds sterling]20.00. vi + 249 pages. ISBN 978-0-7509-4378-9. This is the writer's third book an Victorian public health and is concerned with...

Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and Their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and Their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis. Suzanne Vromen. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]13.99. xix + 178 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-518128-9. During the Second World War there...

The House of Lords.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The House of Lords. Donald Shell. Manchester University Press. [pounds sterling]55.00. vi + 185 pages. ISBN 978-0-7190-5443-3. The 1999 'reform' of the Lords, in which all but a handful of hereditary peers were ejected, is one of the Blair...

The World on Fire: 1919 and the Battle with Bolshevism.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The World on Fire: 1919 and the Battle with Bolshevism. Anthony Read. Jonathan Cape. [pounds sterling]25.00. xi + 379 pages. ISBN 978-0-224-07595-4. This interesting study concerns itself with the upheavals following the collapse of the Old...

Children's World: Growing Up in Russia, 1890-1991.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Children's World: Growing Up in Russia, 1890-1991. Catriona Kelly. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]29.99. xxii + 714 pages. ISBN 978-0-300-11226-9. Prof. Kelly has chosen a remarkably wide subject that stretches from the age of...

Canada and the British Empire.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Canada and the British Empire. Philip Biickner, editor. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]35.00. xv + 294 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-927164-1. This new volume in the Companion Series has fourteen contributions devoted to the oldest of the...

Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944-45.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944-45. James Holland. Harper Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xlv + 606 pages. ISBN 978-0-00-717645-8. The last two years of war in Italy were stories of invasion, government collapse, partial peace, civil war,...

A Part of History: Aspects of the British Experience of the First World War.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... A Part of History: Aspects of the British Experience of the First World War. Continuum. [pounds sterling]18.99. xx + 229 pages. ISBN 978-0-8264-9813-7. This interesting collection of twenty-two essays by Leading historians of the Great War...

Poe: A Life Cut Short.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Poe: A Life Cut Short. Peter Ackroyd. Chatto & Windus. [pounds sterling]15.99. vi + 170 pages. ISBN 978-0-701-16988-6. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was one of the United States' most original and influential writers. His fame, especially in...

Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics. Stefan Collini. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. ix 4- 368 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-929678-1. This is an interesting and sometimes stimulating collection of essays, most of which have...

Warsaw 1920: Lenin's Failed Conquest of Europe.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Warsaw 1920: Lenin's Failed Conquest of Europe. Adam Zainuyski. Harper Press. [pounds sterling]14.99. xv -h 160 pages. ISBN 978-0-00-722552-1. In this short study Mr Zamoyski uses his extensive knowledge of Poland to describe a little...

Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present. Lisa Appignanesi. Virago. [pounds sterling]20.00. xi + 540 + i. ISBN 978-1-84408-233-9. It is accepted that certain forms of mental illness such as anorexia or...

The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner. Theresa M. Towner. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]40.00 (US$70.00). xii + 112 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-85546-4. Faulkner was one of the US's most prolific writers, famous for his...

Metrostop Paris: History from the City's Heart.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Metrostop Paris: History from the City's Heart. Gregor Dallas. John Murray, [pounds sterling]16.99. xiii + 240 pages. ISBN 978-0-7195-6062-0. Mr Dallas, who has published a variety of titles on French history, here gives readers a guide to the...

Sisters in Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Sisters in Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story. Nicola Tyrer. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [pounds sterling]20.00. xvi + 304 pages. ISBN 978-0-297-84658-1. This history of the women who worked as Queen Alexandra Nurses between 1939 and 1945...

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth. Frances Wilson. Faber and Faber. [pounds sterling]18.99. xiii + 286 pages. ISBN 978-0-571-23047-1. The relationship between Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, has remained one of those bye-ways that fascinate...

The Last Office: 1539 and the Dissolution of a Monastery.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Last Office: 1539 and the Dissolution of a Monastery. Geoffrey Moor-house. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [pounds sterling]25.00. xx + 283 pages. ISBN 978-0-297-85089-2. If we exclude new Commonwealth immigration after 1945, the dissolution of the...

Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq. Patrick Cockburn. Faber and Faber. [pounds sterling]16.99. xiii + 289 pages. ISBN 978-0-571-23974-0. The author, who is a foreign correspondent for The Independent, has based this book on his long interest...

Leningrad; State of Siege. Michael Jones.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Leningrad; State of Siege. Michael Jones. John Murray. [pounds sterling]20.00. xxii + 324 pages. ISBN 978-0-7195-6922-7. The Nazi's siege of Leningrad (St Petersburg) lasted 872 days (8 September 1941-27 January 1944) and remains 'the most...

The Cambridge Introduction to George. Eliot.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Cambridge Introduction to George. Eliot. Nancy Henry. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]40.00 (US$80.00). xi + 129 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-85462-7. Fully to appreciate any writer one needs to know the world in which he (or here,...

After Iraq: Where Next for the Middle East?(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... After Iraq: Where Next for the Middle East? Gwynnc Dyer. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]16.99. vii + 277 pages. ISBN 978-0-300-13735-4. Mr Dyer is clear and succinct in his analysis. Both the Iraqi state and the entire area we call the...

Enduring the Great War: Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Enduring the Great War: Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918. Alexander Watson. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]50.00 (US$99.00). xvi + 288 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-88101-2. Dr Watson concentrates...

International Relations and the Labour Party: Intellectuals and Policy Making from 1918-1945.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... International Relations and the Labour Party: Intellectuals and Policy Making from 1918-1945. Lucian M. Ashworth. Tauris Academic Studies. [pounds sterling]52.50. ix + 294 pages. ISBN 978-1 -845 11-558-6. This study is concerned with the effect...

Called Up, Sent Down: The Bevin Boys' War.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Called Up, Sent Down: The Bevin Boys' War. Tom Hickman. The History Press. [pounds sterling]20.00. v + 249 pages. ISBN 978-0-7509-4547-9. This is a story of government incompetence on a grand scale. As miners were allowed to enlist there was in...

The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Volume I: To 1550. Roger Ellis, editor. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]95.00. x + 485 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-924620-5. [n this latest volume Hie nineteen essays set out to show how...

Europe Between the Oceans: Themes and Variations: 9000 BC - AD 1000. Barry Cunliffe.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Europe Between the Oceans: Themes and Variations: 9000 BC - AD WOO. Barry Cunliffe. Yale University Pess. [pounds sterling]30.00. ix - 518 pages. ISBN 978-0-300-11923-7. As Sir Barry points out in his introduction, the blossoming of European...

Other People's Daughters: The Life and Times of the Governess.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Other People's Daughters: The Life and Times of the Governess. Ruth Brandon. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [pounds sterling]20.00. xi + 303 pages. ISBN 978-0-297-85113-4. While the governess, the single woman who lived in a house to educate its...

Dunkirk: The Men They Left Behind.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Dunkirk: The Men They Left Behind. Sean Longden. Constable. [pounds sterling]20.00. xiv + 466 pages. ISBN 978-1-84529-520-5. This is Mr Longden's third book on the Second World War and here he examines not the 'miracle' of Dunkirk but those...

The Last Crusade: The Seventh Crusade and the Final Bailie for the. Holy Land.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Last Crusade: The Seventh Crusade and the Final Bailie for the. Holy Land. W.B. Bartlett. Tempus. [pounds sterling]20.00. 285 pages. ISBN 978-0-7524-4389-8. What was to prove to be the last Crusade of 1249 set out to capture Jerusalem and...

The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland. Daniel Hahn and Nicholas Robins. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]30.00. xi + 369 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-861460-9. This is the third edition of a deservedly popular title first published in...

The British Labour Party and the Wider World: Domestic Politics, Internationalism and Foreign Policy.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The British Labour Party and the Wider World: Domestic Politics, Internationalism and Foreign Policy. Paul Cor-thora and Jonathan Davis, editors. Tauris Academic Studies. [pounds sterling]52.50. ix + 278 pages. ISBN 978-1-8451 1-401-5. This...

After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy. Timothy J. Lynch and Robert S. Singh. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]20.00 (US$28.00). xiii + 382 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-88004-6. The argument behind this book is that...

Imagining Spain: Historical Myth and National Identity.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Imagining Spain: Historical Myth and National Identity. Henry Kamen. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xiv + 240 pages. ISBN 978-0-300-12641 -9. This study looks at 'the part played by myths about the early modern period [mainly...

The 60s Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The 60s Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade. Gerard Degroot- Macmillan, [pounds sterling]20.00. xiii + 508 + i. ISBN 978-1-4050-5521-5. This history, first published in the US by Harvard University Press, seeks to look...

Ralzinger's Faith: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Ralzinger's Faith: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI. Tracey Rowland. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]12.99. xiii + 214 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-920740-4. As Sydney's Archbishop Pell observes in his introduction, 'no Pope in history has...

Isaac Rosenberg: The Making of a Great War Poet. A New Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Isaac Rosenberg: The Making of a Great War Poet. A New Life. Jean Moor-croi't Wilson. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [pounds sterling]25.00. xii + 468 pages. ISBN 978-0-297-85145-5. This biography follows earlier lives of Siegfried Sassoon and C.H....

Spying on Ireland: British Intelligence and Irish Neutrality During the Second World War.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Spying on Ireland: British Intelligence and Irish Neutrality During the Second World War. Eunan O'Halpin. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]30.00. xxi + 335 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-925329-6. Prof. O' Halpin is concerned with the whole...

The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English. Henry Hitchings. John Murray. [pounds sterling]16.99. vii + 440 pages. ISBN 978-0-7195-6454-3. This history of our language is the 'story of the acquisitiveness of English', a 'hybrid'...

Discovery at Rosetta.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Discovery at Rosetta. Jonathan Downs. Constable. [pounds sterling]16.99. xxv + 262 pages. ISBN 978-1-84529-579-0. The accidental discovery of the 'Rosetta Stone', arguably 'the most important Egyptian artefact ever discovered', was an event...

The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Threat of Nuclear War: Lessons from History.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Threat of Nuclear War: Lessons from History. Len Scott. Continuum. [pounds sterling]25.00. xii + 222 pages. ISBN 978-1-84706-026-6. Both participants in the Cuban Missile Crisis and the numerous historians...

Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel. Andrew Graham-Dixon. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [pounds sterling]14.99. xv + 207 pages. ISBN 978-0-297-85365-7. This book was designed to be a general introduction to Michelangelo's work and to bring together...

Clara's War: A Young Girl's True Story of Miraculous Survival under the Nazis.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Clara's War: A Young Girl's True Story of Miraculous Survival under the Nazis. Clara Kramer with Stephen Glantz. Ebury Press. [pounds sterling]16.99. xii + 339 + i. ISBN 978-0-09-192440-9. This is the story of Clara Schwarz and her family who...

The Siege of Berry 1689: The Military History.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Siege of Berry 1689: The Military History. Richard Doherty. Spellmount. [pounds sterling]20.00. xiv + 274 pages. ISBN 978-1-86227-454-9. To Mr Doherty the siege of Deny is far more than the rallying cry of Northern Ireland's more militant...

Once a Prince of Sarila: Of Palaces and Tiger Hunts, of Nehrus and Mountbat-tens.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Once a Prince of Sarila: Of Palaces and Tiger Hunts, of Nehrus and Mountbat-tens. Narendra Singh Sarila. LB. Tauris. [pounds sterling]24.50. xvi + 300 pages. ISBN 978-1-84511-707-8. The author of this captivating memoir was heir to the Maharaja...

Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing, Katherine Ashenburg. Profile Books. [pounds sterling]12.99. vii + 358 + ii pages. ISBN 978-1-84668-095-3. This title, which was first published in Canada, is concerned with personal hygiene in Western...

More From Our Own Correspondent.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... More From Our Own Correspondent. Tony Grant, editor. Profile Books. [pounds sterling]8.99. x + 358 pages. ISBN 978-1-84668-077-9. The From Our Own Correspondent scries on BBC's Radio Four is one of the most popular and informative programmes on...

Crimson Snow: Britain's First Disaster in Afghanistan.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Crimson Snow: Britain's First Disaster in Afghanistan. Jules Stewart. Sutton Publishing. [pounds sterling]19.99. xiv + 241 pages. ISBN 978-0-7509-4825-8. With the continuing British imbroglio in Afghanistan there is understandably a continuing...

My Father's Country: The Story of a German Family.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... My Father's Country: The Story of a German Family. Wibke Bruhns. Shaun Whiteside, translator. William Heinemann. [pounds sterling]20.00. vi + 335 + x. ISBN 978-0-434-01332-6. As modern Germans try to make sense of their history and of their...

Hiroshima: The World's Bomb.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Hiroshima: The World's Bomb. Andrew J. Rotter. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]16.99. xi + 371 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-280437-2. This study, part of O.U.P.'s Making of the Modern World series, originated with the Press's New York branch....