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More Play Reviews: Shakespeare's First Hundred Thousand

... sewed the costumes, arranged props and lighting, but improvised and rehearsed two other plays Brecht's Schweyk In The Second World War (in English) and An- ouilh's Antigone (in Welsh). They toured two of them the Brecht to Builth Wells, the Anouilh ...

Published: Thursday 20 September 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 679 | Page: 16 | Tags: review 

THE CRIMEAN WAR: A study of the chaos of the campaign

... with deep feeling, and the chapters on the Kaiser's Army are perhaps the most significant in the whole book. During the Second World War Mr. Westman, long since a refugee from Hitler's Germany, worked on the allied side, later returning to Harley Street ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 710 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

An influential Australian--Lord Casey's memoirs

... helps the book to avoid turgidity, the bane of memoirs-writers. And it will be of use as another piece in the jigsaw of Second World War history. One hopes he is preparing his later Memoirs as Minister of External Affairs. BOOK REVIEW ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 230 | Page: 17 | Tags: Review 

Play Reviews: Dingo

... 1967. Charles Wood's Dingo appeared to give us all a fresh insight into the mind of the average serviceman during the second world war, grisly perhaps but trimly valid. That Oh What a Lovely War really said it all four years earlier, albeit in context ...

Published: Thursday 02 February 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 261 | Page: 11 | Tags: review 

More Play Reviews: The Last Enemy

... current tidal wave of books, articles, television series and cinema films all cashing in on nostalgia for Britain in the Second World War, it seems thin. One might therefore find a number of ironies in the premiere of a play based on a Battle of Britain ...

Published: Thursday 07 August 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 273 | Page: 24 | Tags: review 

PROSPECTORS' ADVENTURES: The Bitter Rivalry in the Search for Oil

... both of outstanding interesj. both in the final analysis stories of disaster, and bota vital to the final record of the Second World war- Leon Wolff's LOW-LEVEL MISSION (Longmans. 1 is an account of the Ploesti raids by the American Air Force in August 1943 ...

Published: Saturday 10 May 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 739 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

INTO BATTLE WITH POPS: Gay and Unorthodox Warriors of World ..

... with its own undoubted character. Throughout military history colourful free-lance warriors have been plentiful. The Second World War was no exception, with perhaps Wingate and Popski vieing with Vinegar Joe Stilwell for the prize. In WARRIORS ON WHEELS ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 780 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

Regional Reviews: SCARBOROUGH

... compelling drama centres around a family torn apart by a court case, resulting from the deaths of 2 1 air pilots during the Second World War after defective engines were deliberately installed in aircraft. For more than three years the family has lived in the ...

Published: Thursday 26 November 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 276 | Page: 26 | Tags: review 

WHEN THE BIRDS INSIST: The Enthralling Story of a Bird-watcher in Sussex

... and thereafter the flow of guide-books was unceasing, covering in time the greater part of the civilised world. The Second World War was a severe blow to Baedeker s, but now, with rapidly reviving Hamburg as its headquarters, the guide books are appearing ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 800 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

Play Reviews: The Caucasian Chalk Circle

... production comes complete with the original prologue, in which two communes, in the Soviet Union of immediately after the Second World War, rationally debate whether a piece ot land, traditionally usea ior goat farming, would be better employed in fruit ...

Published: Thursday 05 July 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 324 | Page: 11 | Tags: review 

DIPLOMACY AND WAR

... 1943, was an able diplomat who served his country well. He was deeply in volved in those agonising months before the Second World War when Britain made a pact at Munich and the Nazi-Soviet Treaty was nego tiated by Ribbentrop. They were appalling events ...

Published: Saturday 29 February 1964
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1008 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

POLITICS AND WAR

... Monte Cassino could not he ignored by the allies forging their way northward through Italy in the closing years of the Second World War. It was the key to the whole defensive system guarding the route to Rome. In the final count 50,000 casualties, Allied ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1964
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 959 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review