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BOOK REVIEW: Official Australian history of the Second World War in the air

... BOOK REVIEW Official Australian history of the Second World War in the air A supreme test of the purpose and meaning of the Commonwealth came with the outbreak of the Second World War. For Australians in 1939, although their eyes were turned to the growing ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 408 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

MARK CLARK AND THE CALCULATED RISK: Another Allied General Adds His Forthright Testimony to the Record of the ..

... MARK CLARK AND THE CALCULATED RISK Another Allied ueneral Adds Mis forthright testimony to the Record of the Second World War -By VERN ON FAN E SINCE the war Allied generals have been breaking into print at the rate of about four a year, and not always ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1768 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

A BOURBON OF BOURBONS: A Biography of a Seventeenth-century French Duchess; a Study of an Elizabethan Countess; ..

... Bourbon of Bourbons A Biography of a Seventeenth-century French Duchess a Study of an Elizabethan Countess About the Second World War Walter Allen's Novel Heads a Week of Varied Fiction ONE of the greatest ladies of France, who lived her long life through ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1787 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

Portrait of a Jew

... Albert Memmi: Eyre and Spottiswoode. 25s. The author, born in 1920 in Tunis, a victim of forced labour camps during the Second World War, and now a teacher in France, has made a courageous attempt to assess his own life and problems against the background ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 114 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

SINGING FOR JOY: The Autobiography of Gigli

... Fidelity (Souvenir Press. 18s.) in a book that pays tribute to some of the most remarkable lone-hand operations of the Second World War. Commander Jack Langlais, R.N., a Corsican of fierce temper and unorthodox behaviour, is the central figure in the story ...

Published: Saturday 04 May 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 816 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

The World Bank

... that most professional of bodies, The World Bank, one of the successful international institu tions, created after the Second World War, and perhaps one of the least known in respect of its day-to-day workings. This is the chief single agency by which the ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 147 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

TO THE WARS AGAIN

... has emerged from the brave fog of patriotic propaganda. Of late, much the same kind of thing has been going on over the Second World War. Public interest in these and other episodes stretching all the way back to the farcical-tragical blunders of the Crimea ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 196 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

JOKER OR PATRIOT?

... d, blithering idiot. Either way he was endearing and the pros pect of seeing him transplanted from the First to the Second World War by Bertolt Brecht, with all that that implied of political significance, did not fill me with enthusiastic anticipation ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1963
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 867 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

Russia in My Life

... Thomas P. Whitney: Harrap. 25s. Mr. Whitney, as an American diplomat in Moscow, where he served from the middle of the Second World War until the advent of Khrushchev, has written his very personal experiences of that period. He really lived two lives in ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 177 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review