A Nne A Pplebaum If You Have To Choose A Single Volume
from the enormous stack of books on Iraq published this year, choose Tom Ricks’s Fiasco (Allen Lane, £25). Unlike many of the other writers, Ricks didn’t start out in opposition......
A Ndro L Inklater We Have No Whig Historians In This Country
to match the stature of David McCullough, whose reputation in the United States is of Macaulayesque proportions. His Pulitzer Prize-winning 1776 (Penguin, £8.99) can be wholly......
W Illiam T Revor Denys Finch Hatton Was The Man In The
aeroplane who disturbed Karen Blixen’s African solitude and hugely cheered her up. In the film that featured their romantic friendship Robert Redford didn’t look much like him......
J Ane R Idley The Book That Has Given My Family Most
pleasure this year is Simon Hopkinson’s Second Helpings of Roast Chicken (Ebury Press, £12). Cooking usually defeats and depresses me, but more and more I find that producing......
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