27 APRIL 1956, page 28

Apocalyptic

THE LISBON EARTHQUAKE. By T. D. Kendrick. (Methuen, 210 Tuts account of one of the greatest natural disasters to o vert a European city makes comforting reading, for it shows......

Portrait Of The Author

bYLAN THOMAS IN AMERICA. By John Malcolm Brinnin. (Dent, 18s,) Alt s title, as well as the press quotations which followed its earlier American publication, had indicated that......

Himmler's Table-talk

tch MR. CRANKSHAW spares his readers very little in his gr ues h a, book Gestapo. It is the latest in the series of books whic" h „ come out year after year since the war to......