Leader of the Martians
Thomas Nagel: J.L. Austin’s War, 7 September 2023
“... developments of his time make him a natural subject for an intellectual biography. But M.W. Rowe’s book isn’t just an intellectual biography. He has discovered that Austin was one of the most important Allied military intelligence officers during the Second World War, overseeing the team that made the Normandy landings possible. More than a third of ... ”