Max Hastings

Best books: The Road to Berlin by John Erickson completes his monumental work on the Red Army in the Second World War, based overwhelmingly upon Russian sources. It is flawed as......

P. J. Kavanagh

A novel in which. I took a shame-faced delight was Stanley and the Women by Kingsley Amis, because of the deadly way it pins certain kinds of specifically female ghastliness. It......

Gavin Stamp

I cannot possibly give any more puffs to this year's production by John Martin Robinson, so my best book of 1984 must be a late arrival, The Law Courts: The Architecture of......

Peter Quennell

The appearance of a new biography always raises my hopes, particularly if its subject is a writer, and it helps me to understand the genesis of a book that I have long admired.......

Frank Johnson

As most people should admit, I tend to read new book reviews rather than new books. I have resolved next year actually to read a selection of works from the Martin Amis-Julian......

Richard West

Michael Wharton's The Missing Will is the best autobiography I have read this year. He is one of the last bohemians. Graham Greene's Getting to Know the General has been accused......