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“... Sebestyen’s Twelve Days is well documented, based on up to date knowledge, and vividly written. Roger Gough’s important biography of Kádár shows considerable understanding of a difficult, and in the end haunted, historical figure who was, not uncharacteristically, an admirer of The Good Soldier Svejk. Charles Gati’s Failed ...”

“... his general egomania ... A far more balanced account of de Gaulle’s gifts is to be found in Gough and Home’s collection of essays, which includes chapters by Douglas Johnson, René Rémond, Julian Jackson, Michel Winock and Serge Berstein. Perhaps the most interesting contribution, however, is Jean-Marie Mayeur’s essay on ‘De Gaulle as Politician ...”

“... ambivalence’ meant that while he might ostensibly be courting Virginia Ambella – or Katie Gough-Roberts, or Alice Pike or even, first time around, Dorothy Tennant (who later married him) – what he was unconsciously courting was rejection. In ‘Dolly’ Tennant, perhaps, he met his match, someone as sexually repressed as himself and in some respects ...”

“... many forms, from the Whig factionalist Lord Cobham’s Temple of Liberty at Stowe to the High Tory Roger Newdigate’s alterations to Arbury, and persisted through Walpole and William Beckford, transgressing the demarcation lines of Brindle’s chapters. He is obliged to cut it off in the 1760s only to admit later on, with a note of resignation, that ‘the ...”