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CHURCHILL'S ENGLAND: The Final Volume of the History of the English-Speaking Peoples; The Record of the First ..

... who parachutes into England on a mission to kill one Englishman on whose death, he believes, depends the peace of the world. Knowing that he is expendable, knowing that his cause is the only just one, trained by the men who are using him, he nevertheless ...

Published: Saturday 22 March 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1860 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

WARRING IDEOLOGIES: Three Books on Expressions of Thought--Human, Political and Intellectual; and Recent Novels ..

... of his land. After further adventures and the exercise of that initiative which had kept him alive he arrived in England to fight with us and to remain here, married to an English wife after a wartime of service in the Navy. To survive, he has killed ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1963 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

EXPLORERS AND TRAVELLERS: The Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition; Records of Journeys in Many Parts of the World ..

... Explorers and Travellers The Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition Records of Journeys in Many Parts of the World A Child's Diary in Brazil New Novels and Thrillers THE book that carries the most distinguished dedication of any book this year is THE CROSSING ...

Published: Saturday 01 November 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1792 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

VOYAGES AND ADVENTURES: The Early Life of a Cunard Commodore; a Journey Round the World; a New Assessment of ..

... Voyages and Adventures The Early Life of a Cunard Commodore a Journey Round the World a New Assessment of Elizabeth I; Aspects of India an Outstanding Historical Novel SIR JAMES BISSET, known to thousands of Atlantic travellers as an officer and later ...

Published: Saturday 18 October 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1985 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

A WORLD-FAMOUS NEGRO SINGER: Paul Robeson's Declaration of Faith and his Life Story; Problems of the Campus; ..

... A World-Famous Negro Singer Paul Robeson's Declaration of Faith and his Life Story Problems of the Campus Plot and Counter-plot in Tangier Inside an Israeli Communal Settlement, and Other Fiction TO greet him on his return to England after many years ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2289 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

FAMILIAR FIGURES SEEN ANEW: Essays of Tingling Freshness; A Dutchman' s Views on Britain; The Adlon and Atomic ..

... CONFESSIONS OF A EUROPEAN IN ENGLAND (Heinemann. 25s.) the expression of an opinion to be reckoned with. The Hotel Adlon, which stood at the top of Unter den Linden, in Berlin, was unquestionably one of the best hotels in the world and, like all smoothly-run ...

Published: Saturday 14 June 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1855 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

Condon moves Uptown

... is banjoist band-leader Eddie Condon the great news story that he used to be. He has now become an institution, not just for New York night club goers, but for jazz fans all over the world who like their music rough and slightly rugged. His latest LP announces ...

Published: Wednesday 19 November 1958
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 686 | Page: 54 | Tags: Review 

MORE WAR STORIES: Spies, U-Boats and Aircraft

... who, ostensibly refugees, landed in England, one getting a job at a fashionable West End hairdressers and the other in a North London armaments factory. Klausen was eventually called up in the Norwegian Army in England, a great shock to his partner, who ...

Published: Saturday 12 July 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 809 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

COUNTERFEITERS: A Survey of Famous Forgers

... (Weiden- feld and Nicolson. 21s.) he tells the stones ot some ot the world's greatest counterfeiters. Among them were enterprising Nazis who, in World War II, tried to put the Bank of England out of business with wholesale banknote forgeries in excess of £250 ...

Published: Saturday 11 January 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 940 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

A blind author's novel-- with a blind hero

... the world of imperfect sight, he is to enter the universe of pure sound. The English translation is Naomi Walford's first-rate work. The new May Sarton novel, The Birth Of A Grandfather (Gollancz, 15s.), should, in particular, speak to those of us who ...

Published: Wednesday 02 April 1958
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1031 | Page: 31 | Tags: Review 

OCTOGENARIAN HARVEST

... handled, and slips (such as plon for Bampton Lectures) are few and easily ed. The conclusions of a very long life, so use- employed among useful men and women, should great value to younger men. On personal sur- afier death, Dr. Gooch still sees through a glass ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

TITLE TO FAME: Balzac's Drolleries in a New Translation

... ain been an acknowledged master IFF THE AUSTR aiTA^ ^rS' 1,1 GAME fishing °n 50s l hp COAST (Angus and Robcrt- Klcing us ,m 'Ves us ''lc fruits of his wide experience, jew South wSre most exc'l'ng expeditions off the Queensland S C,°asG Mr- D'Ombrain ...

Published: Saturday 02 August 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 813 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review