22 NOVEMBER 1986, page 35

Powers Falling From On High

Phillip Knightley MAYDAY: EISENHOWER, KHRUSHCHEV AND THE U-2 AFFAIR by Michael R. Beschloss Faber & Faber, f14.95 T his is a very revealing book. When the U-2 spy plane affair......

Up To The Half-way Point Mr Stannard

Allan Massie EVELYN WAUGH, THE EARLY YEARS 1903-39 by Martin Stannard Dent, £14.95 N othing can be more annoying for an author than the reviewer's trick of declar- ing a book to......