Having it both ways
Peter Clarke, 27 January 1994
A.J.P. Taylor: A Biography
by Adam Sisman.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 468 pp., £18.99, January 1994,1 85619 210 5 Show More
by Adam Sisman.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 468 pp., £18.99, January 1994,
A.J.P. Taylor: The Traitor within the Gates
by Robert Cole.
Macmillan, 285 pp., £40, November 1993,0 333 59273 5 Show More
by Robert Cole.
Macmillan, 285 pp., £40, November 1993,
From Napoleon to the Second International: International Essays on the 19th Century
by A.J.P. Taylor, edited by Chris Wrigley.
Hamish Hamilton, 426 pp., £25, November 1993,0 241 13444 7 Show More
by A.J.P. Taylor, edited by Chris Wrigley.
Hamish Hamilton, 426 pp., £25, November 1993,
“... as well as money. No one asked A.J.P. Who? Such tensions are worth exploring; and the more A.J.P. Taylor’s life is explored, the more tensions are disclosed. When he wrote his autobiography, he proposed to call it ‘An Uninteresting Story’, doubtless suspecting that his publishers would veto this proposal (as they duly did). Whatever else it was, the ... ”