Contents · Vol. 10 No. 12 · 23 June 1988

Vol. 10 No. 12 · 23 June 1988

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Cover Artist

Jez Coulson

Robert Fisk

The Yellow Wind by David Grossman, translated by Haim Watzman

Letters

Michael Fitzpatrick, Alan Brien, Bruno Nightingale, Karl Miller, Daniel Waissbein, Maurice Hatton, Tim Barnard, D.L. Ouren, Fraser Mitchell, Peter Faulkner, Hilda Snowden, Hugh Thomas, Andrew Milne, Nicolas Walter

David Gilmour

The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities by Simha Flapan
Collusion across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement and the Partition of Palestine by Avi Shlaim
The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 by Benny Morris

Mark Mazower

Waldheim goes to war

Jose Harris

The Health Services since the War. Vol. I: Problems of Health Care: The National Health Service before 1957 by Charles Webster

Tony Gould

When the fighting is over: A Personal Story of the Battle for Tumbledown Mountain and its Aftermath by John Lawrence and Robert Lawrence
Tumbledown by Charles Wood

David Trotter

The Government of the Tongue: The 1986 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, and Other Critical Writings by Seamus Heaney

Edward Mendelson

History and Value: The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures 1987 by Frank Kermode
Nya by Stephen Haggard and Frank Kermode
British Writers of the Thirties by Valentine Cunningham

George Steiner

Wittgenstein. A Life: Young Ludwig 1889-1921 by Brian McGuinness

V.G. Kiernan

The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery 1776-1848 by Robin Blackburn
Pro-Slavery: A History of the Defence of Slavery in America, 1701-1840 by Larry Tise
Haiti’s Influence on Antebellum America: Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean by Alfred Hunt
Thomas Paine by A.J. Ayer
Paine and Cobbett: The Transatlantic Connection by David Wilson

Michael Brock

Corruption in British Politics, 1895-1930 by G.R. Searle

Stephen Fender

Hemingway by Kenneth Lynn
The Faces of Hemingway: Intimate Portraits of Ernest Hemingway by those who knew him by Denis Brian

W.G. Runciman

Diary: Slums, Unemployment, Strikes and Party Politics

Anthony Thwaite

The Silence in the Garden by William Trevor
Sea Music by David Profumo
Tell it me again by John Fuller
The Continuing Silence of a Poet: The Collected Short Stories of A.B. Yehoshua

Alistair Elliot

Poem: ‘One of our Submarines’

Peter McDonald

You must remember this by Joyce Carol Oates
A Case of Knives by Candia McWilliam
Burning your own by Glenn Patterson

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