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Vol. 9 No. 21 · 26 November 1987
Michael Howard
The Korean War by Max Hastings. Joseph, 476 pp., £14.95, September 1987, 9780718120689 The Origins of the Korean War by Peter Lowe. Longman, 256 pp., £6.95, July 1986, 0 582 49278 5 Korea: The War before Vietnam by Callum MacDonald. Macmillan, 330 pp., £25, November 1986, 0 333 33011 0
Letters
Edward Said, G.A. Cohen, Terence Hegarty, Robert Katz, D.A.N. Jones, Mark Hearne, Roy MacGregor-Hastie, Jean MacGibbon, Bill Turner, Allan Turner, Colin Haycraft
Charles Nicholl
Faustus and the Censor by William Empson, edited by John Henry Jones. Blackwell, 226 pp., £17.50, September 1987, 0 631 15675 5
William Empson and John Haffenden
The Queen and I
R.W. Johnson
Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover by Richard Gid Powers. Hutchinson, 624 pp., £16.95, August 1987, 0 02 925060 9
Hubert Moore
Poem: ‘Desiderata’
Anthony Lewis
Freedom of the Press
Ben Pimlott
Out of the Wilderness: Diaries 1963-67 by Tony Benn. Hutchinson, 592 pp., £14.95, October 1987, 0 09 170660 2
Michael Brock
David Lloyd George: A Political Life. The Architect of Change, 1863-1912 by Bentley Brinkerhoff Gilbert. Batsford, 546 pp., £25, April 1987, 0 7134 5558 6
Graham Ingham
Black Monday
Matt Simpson
Poem: ‘Old People’s Home, Balliol Road’
Matthew Coady
Misrule by Tam Dalyell. Hamish Hamilton, 152 pp., £10.95, May 1987, 0 241 12170 1 One Man’s Judgement: An Autobiography by Lord Wheatley. Butterworth, 230 pp., £15.95, July 1987, 0 406 10019 5 Changing Battlefields: The Challenge to the Labour Party by John Silkin. Hamish Hamilton, 226 pp., £13.95, September 1987, 9780241121719 Heseltine: The Unauthorised Biography by Julian Critchley. Deutsch, 198 pp., £9.95, September 1987, 0 233 98001 6
Roy Porter
Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years 1830-1910 by Richard Evans. Oxford, 676 pp., £55, October 1987, 0 19 822864 3
Alan Ryan
Ruling Performance: British Governments from Attlee to Thatcher edited by Peter Hennessy and Anthony Seldon. Blackwell, 344 pp., £25, October 1987, 0 631 15645 3 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Institutions edited by Vernon Bogdanor. Blackwell, 667 pp., £45, September 1987, 0 631 13841 2 Judges by David Pannick. Oxford, 255 pp., £12.95, October 1987, 0 19 215956 9
Naomi Shepherd
Sharon: An Israeli Caesar by Uzi Benziman. Robson, 276 pp., £12.95, September 1987, 9780860514343 Sands of Sorrow: Israel’s Journey from Independence by Milton Viorst. Tauris, 328 pp., £16.50, September 1987, 1 85043 064 0
C.K. Stead
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin. Viking, 292 pp., £14.95, October 1987, 0 670 81392 3
Ann Geneva
Diary: Celestial Lunacy
Philip Horne
The Perpetual Orgy by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane. Faber, 240 pp., £9.95, July 1987, 0 571 14550 7 Captain Pantoja and the Special Service by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Gregory Kolovakos and Ronald Christ. Faber, 244 pp., £3.95, June 1987, 0 571 14818 2
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