Vol. 16 No. 2 · 27 January 1994

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Vol. 16 No. 2 · 27 January 1994

Peter Clarke

A.J.P. Taylor: A Biography by Adam Sisman. Sinclair-Stevenson, 468 pp., £18.99, January 1994, 1 85619 210 5
A.J.P. Taylor: The Traitor within the Gates by Robert Cole. Macmillan, 285 pp., £40, November 1993, 0 333 59273 5
From Napoleon to the Second International: International Essays on the 19th Century by A.J.P. Taylor, edited by Chris Wrigley. Hamish Hamilton, 426 pp., £25, November 1993, 0 241 13444 7

Letters

Richard Gott, Adam Westoby, Chris Harman, Keith Graham, Keith Flett, Hopey Glass, William Keach, Maqbool Aziz, Michael Dobson, John Bayley, Donald Goddard, Jasa Almuli, James Hill, Scott Malcomson

John Bayley

A History of Warfare by John Keegan. Hutchinson, 432 pp., £20, September 1993, 0 09 174527 6
How Great Generals Win by Bevin Alexander. Norton, 320 pp., £22, November 1993, 9780393035315
The Backbone: Diaries of a Military Family in the Napoleonic Wars edited by Alethea Hayter. Pentland, 343 pp., £18.50, September 1993, 1 85821 069 0

Michael Howard

Beacons in the Night: With the OSS and Tito’s Partisans in Wartime Yugoslavia by Franklin Lindsay. Stanford, 383 pp., £19.95, October 1993, 0 8047 2123 8

Robert Paxton

Collaboration in Belgium: Léon Degrelle and the Rexist Movement by Martin Conway. Yale, 364 pp., £30, October 1993, 0 300 05500 5

John Lloyd

Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Oxford, 221 pp., £17.95, March 1993, 0 19 827787 3
Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States edited by Ian Bremner and Ray Taras. Cambridge, 577 pp., £55, December 1993, 0 521 43281 2
The Post-Soviet Nations edited by Alexander Motyl. Columbia, 322 pp., £23, November 1993, 0 231 07894 3
The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence by Anatol Lieven. Yale, 454 pp., £22.50, June 1993, 0 300 05552 8

Frank Kermode

The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry by T.S. Eliot, edited by Ronald Schuchard. Faber, 343 pp., £25, November 1993, 0 571 14230 3

Catherine Gallagher

Writing Women in Jacobean England by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski. Harvard, 431 pp., £35.95, February 1993, 0 674 96242 7

Michael Hofmann

Pursued by Furies: A life of Malcolm Lowry by Gordon Bowker. HarperCollins, 672 pp., £25, October 1993, 0 00 215539 7
The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry edited by Kathleen Scherf. British Columbia, 418 pp., £25, January 1992, 0 7748 0362 2

Ian Hacking

The Nature of Rationality by Robert Nozick. Princeton, 226 pp., £19.95, August 1993, 0 691 07424 0

Derek Mahon

Poem: ‘Pygmalion’

Henry Gee

The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind by Eric Trinkaus and Pat Shipman. Cape, 454 pp., £20, April 1993, 0 224 03648 3
In Search of the Neanderthals: Solving the Puzzle of Human Origins by Christopher Stringer and Clive Gamble. Thames and Hudson, 247 pp., £18.95, May 1993, 0 500 05070 8
Self-Made Man and His Undoing by Jonathan Kingdon. Simon and Schuster, 369 pp., £20, March 1993, 0 671 71140 7

James Davidson

The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Other Reflections on the Classics by Bernard Knox. Norton, 144 pp., £12.95, September 1993, 0 393 03492 5

Philip Purser

Diary: On Jack Trevor Story

John Lennard

Jargon: Its Uses and Abuses by Walter Nash. Blackwell, 214 pp., £16.99, September 1993, 9780631180630

Eduardo Rabossi

The Angel of Darkness by Ernesto Sábato, translated by Andrew Hurley. Cape, 435 pp., £15.99, May 1993, 0 224 03306 9

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