27 MARCH 1976, page 25

Mann Acts

Hilary Spurling Unwritten Memories Katia Mann edited by Elisabeth Plessen and Michael Mann. Translated by Hunter and Hildegarde Hannum (Deutsch £3.95) Thomas Mann's widow,......

Charade

David Levy Stalin's Masterpiece: The 'Show Trials' and Purges of the Thirties—The Consolidation of the Bolshevik Dictatorship Joel Carmichael (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £6.95) In......