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“... responsible for the final proof-reading should be sent back in time and made to march on Moscow. Philip Longworth’s elegant account of Alexis Romanov, Tsar of Russia from 1645 to 1676, claims to be ‘the first full biography ... in any language for 150 years’. This is misleading as another study of the same monarch was published four years ...”

“... of the dead. In The Unending Vigil (1967), his history of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Philip Longworth relates a saccharine tale of a French child at Versailles – a ‘heroic little thing . . . doomed by a disease of the spine’ – who insisted on tending the graves of her ‘chers soldats anglais’ until her sickness defeated her. The ...”

“... man who was, she was certain, intent on becoming ‘America’s Führer’ (as he does in Philip Roth’s The Plot against America). His fans accused Thompson of hysteria – attacks against her were nearly always gendered. One quip (attributed to Alice Roosevelt Longworth) was that Thompson was the ‘only woman in ...”