... remembrance of childhood, which will strike many chords in those whose adolescent years were spent in London during the Second World War, a time I which only now, years after the event, we realise was so unsettling that we are amazed we got through it without ...

... Most, one of the most recent. What is interesting is why Beecham deserted his orchestra during the early days of the Second World War to go to the United States, leaving it to fend for itself and surviving largely because of Jack Hylton, who booked it ...

... (Routledge and Kegan Paul, £19.95) Most people assume that Hollywood came under European influence in the years before the Second World War, when a large number of European directors and actors, mainly Jewish, arrived in the States as refugees from the Nazis ...

... along the way it also became a moral threat hence the introduction of censorship a morale-lifter (especially during the Second World War), a political weapon and the source of an endless succession of exploitative ideas. Throughout its history, millions ...

... nurtured. The years between the wars and the role of the little Curtain and Park Theatres are given careful attention. The second world war and theatre activity since that time bring de tailed accounts of Glasgow Citizens' and United and an informed view of ...

... Or if the great love of her life, band leader Teddy Joyce, had not died suddenly in Glasgow at the begin ning of the Second World War? Hers has been a life hedged around with 'ifs'. But her indomitable spirit kept her going. To those of my generation ...

... Liberty until she was five years old, when her father, who had emigrated to the States just after the beginning of the Second World War, sent for her and her mother to join him in Chicago in 1946. Plucking them from Valsjobyn, a tiny town in Northern Sweden ...

... bureaucratic state, but of Vishnevskaya 's own background in a Leningrad which suffered ap palling privations during the Second World War. Vishnevskaya had a short lived marriage to a serviceman and a longer marriage to a much older con- ductor before she ...

... if it were not for public money, there would not be any arts at all, a proposition invented by Lord Keynes after the Second World War and enthusiastically accepted as Holy Writ. They believe, and they are not alone, that this belief is not only histori ...

... timated comedian, but there is no underestimating his ability as a writer. His story takes us only up to the start of the Second World War, but it is a marvellous evocation of East End life m the pre-war years, full of loving recollections of his family, memories ...

... and dramatic in its development. Mr Markstein, who was a mili tary correspondent with the US forces in Euopre after the second world war, and has studied es pionage, went from documentary writing to drama, creating the The Prisoner series. He had edited ...

... industries. Mostly, however, it is the sad, highly personal story of a woman who never once found peace. PH. Films and the Second World War Roger Manvell J. M. Dent, £5.95 One of the world's most distin guished film authorities, Dr Manvell has evaluated the ...