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AUTHORS' AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: David Garnett and Arthur Koestler write about themselves; Books about Zeppelins and ..

... the author covers many sciences. PANZER BATTLES 1939-1945 (Cassell. 36s.), a study of the employment of armour in the Second World War, has been written by Major-General F. W. Von Mellenthin, and translated by H. Bottler. Edited by L. C. F. Turner, the ...

Published: Saturday 22 October 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1772 | Page: 52 | Tags: Review 

CANADA AS A WORLD POWER: A Survey of the Fastest Developing Nation, a Land in which the United States has ..

... entertainment. No part of the world has excited more continuous interest than the Middle East since the close of the Second World War. The events in Egypt, leading up to the abdication of Farouk and the emergence of Neguib in Jordan, leading up to the ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1895 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

THE CALL TO HONOUR

... to a chapter that has barely begun. An absorbing book about an extraordinary character. The next two books show the Second World War from the enemy's angle. Jost Metzler and Otto Kretschmer were U-boat captains. In The Golden Horseshoe (Evans. 12s. 6d ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1766 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

PORTRAIT OF THE NAVY: A Captain's Autobiography; Who was Shakespeare?; The Talent and Taste of Proust; Epic ..

... the China Station, the Baltic and the Mediterranean; stories of the First War and between the wars, and exploits of the Second World War when Captain Bush was still on extremely active service. In many ways this is a wonderful book, simply and directly told ...

Published: Saturday 03 May 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1730 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

VON PAPEN WRITES HIS APOLOGIA

... his books and pictures, enjoying a life of physical tranquillity and intellectual activity, found himself during the Second World War involved in the ebb and flow of the Italian campaign, cut off from his friends and the travels which he was accustomed ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1853 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

Book Reviews

... December 1873, into the heart of the .Esthetic movement; he died in June 1939 three months before the outbreak of that Second World War which he had felt it his mission to attempt to avert. As a forty-two- year-old second-lieutenant, he had seen active ...

Published: Wednesday 21 April 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1865 | Page: 25 | Tags: Review 

THE LOVE-STORY OF RAINER MARIA RILKE: The Lyric Poet and Mystic and the Romance that Came to Him in Maturity

... become an indus trial empire in the heart of Africa, and Tom Marvel, an American who first visited the country during the Second World War while serving as a U.S. Information Officer, gives a well informed account of it in The New Congo (Macdonald. 15s.). ...

Published: Saturday 20 August 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1976 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

WHITTAKER CHAMBERS, WITNESS

... and Dowding, who abetted from the skies the work of our surface ships, are reminders of how Germany was foiled in the Second World War. The name of Admiral Edward Vernon is less familiar, although Portsmouth commemorates him duly. It was Vernon, a naval ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2016 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

WARRING IDEOLOGIES: Three Books on Expressions of Thought--Human, Political and Intellectual; and Recent Novels ..

... young. A new freedom is being born. DISCOURSE WITH SHADOWS (Gollancz.1 13s.-6d.).has Frankfurt just after the end of the Second World War as its scene and a cast of five principal characters, four of whom are survivors of a Nazi con-L centration camp and ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1963 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

A Journey of the Mind

... Vice- Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Michael Joseph 15s. illustrated) and The History of the Irish Guards in the Second World War, by Major D. J. L. Fitzgerald, M.C., with a Foreword by F.-M. Viscount Alexander of Tunis, their Colonel (Gale and Polden ...

Published: Wednesday 14 December 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2068 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

WHAT SITWELL THINKS OF SITWELL

... Germany. Through out the First World War and in the uneasy days of peace she works for Germany, and now, at sixty, in the Second World War she is still serving the same masters in Cyprus, and dependent upon them for her very existence. This prim-looking, dignified ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1998 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS

... of the war-forgetting mid-1920's we pass on inexorably, page by page, towards the bomb ruins and battlefields of tha,t second World War of which the mid-1940's have seen the close. Bewildered by present conditions, Mr. Quennell says, and baffled by our ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2051 | Page: 25 | Tags: Review