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Vol. 24 No. 4 · 21 February 2002
Murray Sayle
China and the Vietnam Wars 1950-75 by Qiang Zhai. North Carolina, 304 pp., $49.95, April 2000, 0 8078 4842 5 None so Blind: A Personal Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam by George Allen. Ivan Dee, 296 pp., $27.50, October 2001, 1 56663 387 7 No Peace, No Honour: Nixon, Kissinger and Betrayal in Vietnam by Larry Berman. Free Press, 334 pp., $27.50, November 2001, 0 684 84968 2
Letters
James Waterson, Rupert Holroyd, Ian Adveron, Lavinia Cramer, Timothy Mowl, Patrick Parrinder, Leon Lewis, Norah Carlin, Brian Towers, Nancy Kenyon, Richard Boston, Dod Davidson, Tahir Kayani
Robert Crawford
Four Poems
Mary Beard
Asterix and the Actress by Albert Uderzo, translated by Anthea Bell. Orion, 48 pp., £9.99, April 2001, 0 7528 4657 4
Michael Byers
The World according to Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld
Eric Hobsbawm
War and Peace in the 20th Century
Susan Watkins
Rosa Luxemburg: An Intimate Portrait by Mathilde Jacob, translated by Hans Fernbach. Lawrence and Wishart, 143 pp., £9.99, May 2000, 0 85315 900 9
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Say Cheese
Christopher Tayler
Spies by Michael Frayn. Faber, 224 pp., £14.99, February 2002, 0 571 21286 7
Dan Jacobson
The Price
Peter Campbell
In New Zealand
Daniel Soar
That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern. Faber, 298 pp., £16.99, January 2002, 0 571 21216 6
David Craig
Sea Room: An Island Life by Adam Nicolson. HarperCollins, 391 pp., £14.99, October 2001, 0 00 257164 1
Simon Schaffer
His Invention so Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren by Adrian Tinniswood. Cape, 463 pp., £25, July 2001, 9780224042987
Peter Green
The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek, the Man who Discovered Britain by Barry Cunliffe. Allen Lane, 182 pp., £12.99, October 2001, 0 7139 9509 2 Ptolemy’s Geography: An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters edited by J. Lennart Berggren and Alexander Jones. Princeton, 232 pp., £17.95, January 2002, 0 691 09259 1 Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World: Atlas and Map-By-Map Directory by Richard J.A. Talbert. Princeton, three volumes, £300, September 2000, 9780691031699
Charles Glass
Diary: Israel’s occupation of Palestine
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