Reviews

This biography of Lady Victoria Sackville (Vita Sackville's mother) is well worth reading. She said that her life was like a novel - it...

(First published in ‘F ighting Times’ ) Winston Churchill in 1911. It can be dangerous letting loose a biographer on a man like Winston...

I found this in Oxfam. I see from the end of the book that Jenny Lee wrote it after people had claimed that there was something wrong...

Harold Laski 1892-1950 This book is a most interesting biographical memoir of Harold Laski. The author, Kingsley Martin, knew Laski well...

Newnhame College, Cambridge. This is a book, published for the centenary of the founding of Newnham College, comprises items written by...

(This review was first published in Fighting Times .) The Glorious First of June, 1 June 1794. Every researcher knows the excitement of...

Roosevelt and Churchill on USS Augusta where they agreed the text of the Atlantic Charter. I first read this book more than ten years ago...

Colville ‘The Fringes of Power’ Vol 1 (Sir John Rupert Colville was 24 years old when he was seconded from the Foreign Office to the post...

The birth of a diary ‘Ike says I’m to keep a diary.' With these words Captain Harry C Butcher, USNR, begins a diary like no other. He had...

Review of H C Butcher ‘Three Years With Eisenhower’ ( Heinemann 1946). An accidental diarist ‘Ike says I’m to keep a diary.’ With these...