... which begets under standing. The action spans something like ten years, from the early thirties to the beginning of the Second World War. In a seaside camp, unemployed miners are living for a few artificial days away from reality except, of course, that ...

... hospital pyjamas, spelling out barbarity with reason. Though this is a work of fiction the details are factual. During the Second World War the Germans left seven Russian officers sealed up in a hilltop monastery, naked, in one room, below ground in southern ...

... that becomes psychology. The book can seem un- Arthur Barker will publish John Toland's The Last 100 Days (of the Second World War) in September. remittingly tragic. It is, in the words of the last but one paragraph, about all things hurt or silent ...

... Breaking The Code BASINGSTOKE ALAN Turing might so easily have been a Second World War national hero. Instead, as Hugh Whitemore's play makes out, he was a marginal figure, lonely and rather pathetic, whose withered social manner concealed both the flower ...

... headlong into an assassination plot designed to damage British oil treaties in the Middle East are rusty memories of the Second World War Military Intelligence and a sound grasp of psychology. As an outsider forced into an ambience with which he is far less ...

... World THE Old World of Alexei Arbu- zov's play at the Eblana Theatre is that of Russia from the revolution through the Second World War. It's viewed not in a political nor historical context but through the personal reminiscences of an elderly doctor and ...

... chorus-line choreography mat tered as much as who was top of the bill. The instinctive focus of their nostalgia is on the Second World War and beyond, not the Boer and not the First, and most of the music they want to remember today comes from the fifties ...

... Too unaware of dangers of self-parody by Simon Trussler PLAYS about the Second World War are more often parodied than produced in this disillusioned decade. Indeed, ever since Beyond the Fringe first dared to send up the cherished cliches of countless ...

... made as incomprehensible as possible. Thus it was with John Grillo's 1939 set in the year which saw the start of the second world war and seeking, presumably, to point up the coming horrors by contrasting the shocked bewilder ment of an English schoolmaster ...

... Tough, who were to become the driving force of the Dixieland era which dominated the New York scene until well after the Second World War. Some of the sparkle and gusto of this extremely uninhibited jazz is captured in an album demurely entitled Max Kam insky ...

... Windus. 21s.) is an absorbing record of the Anglo-American alliance, which grew so swiftly in warmth in the days of the Second World War, fostered by Roosevelt who attended to us in our deepest need, and which developed steadily after the close of hostilities ...

... reader may be weary of this monotonous tale of Machiavellian villainy, degradation, and hate. Two crucial battles of the Second World War, one on land and the other at sea, also form the subject of new books. Alan Clark's THE FALL OF CRETE (Anthony Blond ...