Vol. 8 No. 18 · 23 October 1986

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Vol. 8 No. 18 · 23 October 1986

Michael Brock

Government and the Universities in Britain: Programme and Performance 1960-1980 by John Carswell

Letters

E.E. Duncan-Jones, Bruce Clunies Ross, Rudolf Peierls, Philippa Foot, Steve Fuller, Paul Addison, David Aberbach, Adrian Room, Patrick Hughes

William Rodgers

The SDP’s Chances

R.W. Johnson

‘The target is destroyed’: What really happened to Flight 007 by Seymour Hersh

Clive Wilmer

Poem: ‘The Earth Rising’

Hugo Williams

Poem: ‘When I grow up’

Ross McKibbin

The Politics of the UCS Work-In: Class Alliances and the Right to Work by John Foster and Charles Woolfson
A Lost Left: Three Studies in Socialism and Nationalism by David Howell
The Miners’ Strike 1984-5: Loss without Limit by Martin Adeney and John Lloyd
Red Hill: A Mining Community by Tony Parker
Strike Free: New Industrial Relations in Britain by Philip Bassett

Ian Gilmour

Britain’s Civil Wars: Counter-Insurgency in the 20th Century by Charles Townshend
Terrorism and the Liberal State by Paul Wilkinson
Terrorism: How the West can win edited by Benjamin Netanyahu
Political Murder: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism by Franklin Ford
The Financing of Terror by James Adams
They dare to speak out: People and institutions confront Israel’s lobby by Paul Findley

Edmund Leach

The Anthropology of Violence edited by David Riches
Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process by Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning
Sport, Power and Culture: A Social and Historical Analysis of Popular Sports in Britain by John Hargreaves
At the Dawn of Tyranny: The Origins of Individualism, Political Oppression and the State by Eli Sagan

D.A.N. Jones

The Casualty by Heinrich Böll, translated by Leila Vennewitz
Augustus by Allan Massie
Gabriel’s Lament by Paul Bailey
The Mind and Body Shop by Frank Parkin

Philip Roth

Philip Roth talks to the Italian writer Primo Levi about his life and times

John Bayley

The Bondage of Love: A Life of Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Molly Lefebure
Jane Welsh Carlyle by Virginia Surtees

J.I.M. Stewart

H.G. Wells: Desperately Mortal by David Smith

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

Poem: ‘Sherlock Holmes’

Conrad Russell

Humanism in the Age of Henry VIII by Maria Dowling
Henry, Prince of Wales and England’s Lost Renaissance by Roy Strong
Authority and Conflict: England 1603-1658 by Derek Hirst
Rebellion or Revolution? England 1640-1660 by G.E. Aylmer
Politics and Ideology in England 1603-1640 by J.P. Sommerville

David Norbrook

Hugh MacDiarmid: The Man and his Work by Nancy Gish
Complete Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid

Nigel Hamilton

Diary: Writing Books, and Selling Them

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