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NOVELSWITH THE ACCENT ON VIOLENCE: Graham Greene's The Third Man: Henry Von Rhau's Pass the Tambourine

... cross my mind The Odds Against Us (MacGibbon and Kee. 9s. 6d.) is announced as the first war book written about jthe Second World War by a German who fought against us, and it is an account of the adventures, physical and intellectual, of a group of German ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1681 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

INDIA REMEMBERED: A World of Beauty and Danger; Authors on the Land; Prelates and Ladies; A Caribbean Saga and ..

... Louis Bromfield was an American author who lived for a long time in France and moved back to Ohio at the beginning of the Second World War. He lived there until his death last month and farmed there and made many experiments in the rehabilitation of worn-out ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1621 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

The Sketch-Book

... pygmies had struck at the giant, as pygmies, if there are enough of them, will always do. One of the casualties in the Second World War was human dignity. There was a time in the affairs of men when foreign ministers, no matter how agile their minds or ...

Published: Wednesday 14 April 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1652 | Page: 5 | Tags: Review 

TREACHERY IN THE LAND OF UNCLE SAM

... in addition to other new matter, descriptions and illustrations of the developments in diving appliances during the Second World War and since. The third and last volume of THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM is published by Heinemann at ...

Published: Saturday 15 December 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1654 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: Alec Waugh and John Wain recall their early years; a life of Sherlock Holmes; and this week's ..

... the tone is modest, friendly and, in a sense, detached. The period he covers ends in his thirty-second year with the Second World War and his own greatest successes still some distance ahead. One can only hope that he will bring his readers up to date ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1574 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

THE LAST MONTHS OF WAR: In the Last Volume of His War Memoirs, Sir Winston Churchill Covers the Period from D ..

... the Change in Government -By VERNON FANE THE sixth and final volume of Sir Winston Churchill's imposing history of THE SECOND WORLD WAR: TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY (Cassell. 30s.) covers the period from D-Day to VE- Day, the Potsdam Conference, the General Election ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1742 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

DAY BY DAY WITH LEWIS CARROLL: Under the Scholarly Editorship of Roger L. Green the Author's Diaries, from His ..

... g outside the United States and continuing not only during my term, but for eight years more, until the start of the Second World War in 1941. I have quoted this passage with some care because there may be English, Canadian, French, Polish, Belgian, ...

Published: Saturday 06 February 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1699 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

COCTEAU TURNS GLOBE-TROTTER

... strange story, just this side of credulity, about a Pacific island in which a group of Japanese troops, left over from the Second World War, are still holding out in a difficult jungle-mountain terrain and show no signs of surrendering. The island has been ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1630 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

CROWDED COMPANY and SOBER LIVING: Some New Volumes of Reminiscences Provide Varied Reading

... Irish Sea to meet the Republican leaders. Thereupon he proceeded from one Coalition to another until the outbreak of the Second World War found him at the Admiralty. Inserted into this period is a closely reasoned and rather courageous defence of Chamberlain ...

Published: Saturday 17 December 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1554 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

ESSENTIAL WARSHIPS: A History of H.M. Destroyers; The Curragh Mutiny; Crime in America; George Robey's Life; ..

... labour, too. GREEN KIWI (Michael Joseph. 15s.) is the record of some of his experiences in his life there, before the Second World War. Mr. Sutherland writes as soberly and yet as romantically as a true Scot, and has given a loving picture of the country ...

Published: Saturday 26 May 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1552 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

EMINENT VICTORIANS

... Fuller's third volume in this impressive series. It continues the chronicle from the American Civil War to the end of the Second World War, and examines sixty-eight battles and sieges. As in the earlier volumes, General Fuller's approach to the subject on ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1573 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

THE NARROW WORLD OF NANCY MITFORD: But a Joyous World, as Well, in which Even Her Communist Characters are ..

... her voice floats with surrender messages and songs, exactly in the manner of Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally during the Second World War. The idea is to get American recruits acquainted with these sort of tactics in the field. Miss Nesom was formerly a ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1653 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review