Vol. 7 No. 8 · 2 May 1985
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Vol. 7 No. 8 · 2 May 1985
Alan Milward
Hitler and the Final Solution by Gerald Fleming. Hamish Hamilton, 219 pp., £12.95, January 1985, 0 241 11388 1 Hitler in History by Eberhard Jäckel. University Press of New England, 115 pp., $9.95, January 1985, 0 87451 311 1 Albert Speer: The End of a Myth by Matthias Schmidt, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Harrap, 276 pp., £9.95, March 1985, 0 245 54244 2
Letters
Craig Raine, Barbara Everett, Peter Pulzer, Waldemar Januszczak
John Ryle
The Coup in Sudan
Peter Jenkins
Founders of the Welfare State edited by Paul Barker. Gower, 138 pp., £14.95, February 1985, 0 435 82060 5 The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith. Deutsch, 291 pp., £9.95, February 1985, 0 233 97771 6
Alan Brinkley
God in America: Religion and Politics in the United States by Furio Colombo, translated by Kristin Jarrat. Columbia, 176 pp., $18, December 1984, 0 231 05972 8 The Old Christian Right: The Protestant Far Right from the Great Depression to the Cold War by Leo Ribuffo. Temple, 369 pp., $29.95, August 1983, 0 87722 297 5
Philip French
Orwell: The War Broadcasts edited by W.J. West. Duckworth/BBC, 304 pp., £12.95, March 1985, 0 7156 1916 0
Michael Foley
Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories by Raymond Carver. Harvill, 204 pp., £8.95, April 1985, 0 00 271243 1 The Stories of Raymond Carver Picador, 447 pp., £3.50, May 1985, 0 330 28552 1
David Jones
Motel Chronicles and Hawk Moon by Sam Shepard. Faber, 188 pp., £3.95, February 1985, 0 571 13458 0 Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders and Sam Shepard. Ecco, 509 pp., £12.95, January 1985, 0 88001 077 0
Peter Robb
Poem: ‘Curriculum Vitae’
Daniel Aaron
The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty, introduced by Helen McNeil. Virago, 180 pp., £3.50, October 1984, 0 86068 375 3 One Writer’s Beginnings by Eudora Welty. Harvard, 136 pp., £8.80, April 1984, 0 674 63925 1 The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty Penguin, 622 pp., £4.95, November 1983, 0 14 006381 1 Conversations with Eudora Welty edited by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw. Mississippi, 356 pp., £9.50, October 1984, 0 87805 206 2
Bruce Bawer
Invented Lives: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald by James Mellow. Souvenir, 569 pp., £15.95, February 1985, 0 285 65001 7 Home before Dark: A Personal Memoir of John Cheever by Susan Cheever. Weidenfeld, 243 pp., £10.95, January 1985, 0 297 78376 9
Betty Wood
The Limits of Liberty: American History 1607-1980 by Maldwyn Jones. Oxford, 696 pp., £22.50, November 1983, 0 19 913074 4 America: A Narrative History by Charles Brown Tindall. Norton, 1425 pp., £16.95, July 1984, 0 393 95435 8 The Longman History of the United States by Hugh Brogan. Longman, 740 pp., £19.95, March 1985, 0 582 35385 8 American Tough: The Tough-Guy Tradition and American Character by Rupert Wilkinson. Greenwood, 221 pp., £27.95, March 1984, 0 313 23797 2
Julian Barnes
A Classical Education by Richard Cobb. Chatto, 156 pp., £9.95, April 1985, 0 7011 2936 0 Still Life: Sketches from a Tunbridge Wells Childhood by Richard Cobb. Chatto, 161 pp., £3.95, April 1985, 0 7012 1920 3
John Bayley
Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Selection edited by Alan Hill. Oxford, 200 pp., £9.95, March 1985, 0 19 818539 1 Dorothy Wordsworth by Robert Gittings and Jo Manton. Oxford, 318 pp., £12.50, March 1985, 0 19 818519 7 The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, The Two-Part Prelude by William Wordsworth, edited by Jonathan Wordsworth. Cambridge, 76 pp., £7.95, January 1985, 0 521 26526 6 The Ruined Cottage, The Brothers, Michael by William Wordsworth, edited by Jonathan Wordsworth. Cambridge, 82 pp., £7.95, January 1985, 0 521 26525 8
Karl Miller
Diary: On Doubles
Hugh Barnes
Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn. Harvill, 255 pp., £9.95, April 1985, 0 00 221822 4 Sweet Dreams by Michael Frayn. Harvill, 223 pp., £9.95, April 1985, 0 00 221884 4 The Fall of Kelvin Walker by Alasdair Gray. Canongate, 144 pp., £7.95, March 1985, 9780862410728 Lean Tales by James Kelman, Agnes Owens and Alasdair Gray. Cape, 286 pp., £8.95, May 1985, 0 224 02262 8 Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr. Deutsch, 214 pp., £8.95, April 1985, 9780233977522 Family Dancing by David Leavitt. Viking, 206 pp., £8.95, March 1985, 0 670 80263 8 The Whitbread Stories: One by Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson. Hamish Hamilton, 184 pp., £4.95, April 1985, 0 241 11544 2
Peter Porter
Poem: ‘Sticking to the text’
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