Vol. 5 No. 4 · 3 March 1983

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Cover Artist

Eric Leiderman

Christopher Driver

Prostitution and Prejudice: The Jewish Fight against White Slavery, 1870-1939 by Edward Bristow. Oxford, 340 pp., £15, November 1982, 0 19 822588 1
Peasants, Rebels and Outcastes by Mikiso Hane. Scolar, 297 pp., £12.50, October 1982, 0 85967 670 6

Letters

T.G. Rosenthal, Armando Valladares, Norman Stone, Roger Morgan, Christopher Norris, Hyam Maccoby, H.G. Koenigsberger, Bojan Bujic, D.L. Abramovitch, Donald Davie, Daniel Eilon

Geoff Eley

Holocaust History

David Blackbourn

‘Hitler’: A Film from Germany by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, translated by Joachim Neugroschel, introduced by Susan Sontag. Carcanet, 268 pp., £9.95, December 1982, 0 85635 405 8

Graham Bradshaw

The Bayreuth Ring  BBC2, October 1982
Parsifal directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg. Edinburgh Film Festival, September 1982
Parsifal by Lucy Beckett. Cambridge, 163 pp., £9.95, August 1981, 0 521 22825 5
Wagner and Literature by Raymond Furness. Manchester, 159 pp., £14.50, February 1982, 0 7190 0844 1
Wagner to ‘The Waste Land’: A Study of the Relationship of Wagner to English Literature by Stoddart Martin. Macmillan, 277 pp., £20, June 1982, 0 333 28998 6
Wagner and Aeschylus: ‘The Ring’ and ‘The Oresteia’ by Michael Ewans. Faber, 271 pp., £12.50, July 1982, 0 571 11808 9

Peter Gay

Mozart by Wolfgang Hildesheimer, translated by Marion Faber. Dent, 408 pp., £10.95, January 1983, 0 460 04347 1

Keith Kyle

A History of the United Nations. Vol. 1: The Years of Western Domination by Evan Luard. Macmillan, 404 pp., £25, June 1982, 0 333 24389 7

Tam Dalyell

The Battle for the Falklands by Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins. Joseph, 384 pp., £10.95, February 1983, 0 7181 2228 3

Brian Bond

The Falklands Campaign: The Lessons  HMSO, 46 pp., £3.95, December 1982
Sea Change by Keith Speed. Ashgrove Press, 194 pp., £7.95, December 1982, 0 906798 20 5
One Man’s Falklands by Tam Dalyell. Cecil Woolf, 144 pp., £5.50, December 1982, 0 900821 65 5
War in the Falklands: The Campaign in Pictures  Weidenfeld, 154 pp., £7.95, November 1982, 0 297 78202 9
Armed Forces and the Welfare Societies: Challenges in the 1980s edited by Gwyn Harries-Jenkins. Macmillan, 281 pp., £20, December 1982, 0 333 33542 2

Frederick Seidel

Two Poems

Alan Rusbridger

The Life and Death of the Press Barons by Piers Brendon. Secker, 288 pp., £12.50, December 1982, 0 436 06811 7

D.A.N. Jones

Marienbad by Sholom Aleichem, translated by Aliza Shevrin. Weidenfeld, 222 pp., £7.95, February 1983, 0 297 78200 2
A Coin in Nine Hands by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Dori Katz. Aidan Ellis, 192 pp., £7.95, January 1983, 0 85628 123 9
Entry into Jerusalem by Stanley Middleton. Hutchinson, 172 pp., £7.50, January 1983, 0 09 150950 5
People Who Knock on the Door by Patricia Highsmith. Heinemann, 306 pp., £7.95, January 1983, 0 434 33521 5
A Visit from the Footbinder by Emily Prager. Chatto, 174 pp., £7.95, February 1983, 0 7011 2675 2
Dusklands by J.M. Coetzee. Secker, 125 pp., £6.95, January 1983, 9780436102967

Tom Paulin

Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings by Angela Carter. Virago, 181 pp., £3.50, October 1982, 0 86068 269 2

Mary-Kay Wilmers

Difficult Women: A Memoir of Three by David Plante. Gollancz, 173 pp., £7.95, January 1983, 0 575 03189 1

A.J.P. Taylor

Diary: Problems for the Solitary Housekeeper

Julian Barnes

The Mystery of Georges Simenon by Fenton Bresler. Heinemann, 259 pp., £8.95, February 1983, 0 434 98033 1

Donald Davie

Poem: ‘For Ivor Gurney’

C.H. Sisson

By Safe Hand: Letters of Sybil and David Eccles  Bodley Head, 432 pp., £16, January 1983, 0 370 30482 9

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