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CATS AND DOGS: A selection of anthologies and handbooks

... AND HIS DOG (Harrap. 1 6s.) Heroes of this adventure are Jan, a Czech refugee who joined the French Air Force in the Second World War as an air gunner, and the motherless Alsatian pup he discovered during his wanderings after being shot down over Germany ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 653 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

OCCUPIED FRANCE: Life in Paris and in the Resistance

... tribulations and humiliations of the occupation are brought into sharp relief in two new books about life in France in the Second World War. Ninetta Jucker's CURFEW IN PARIS (Hogarth Press. 21s.) shows the extent to which the French capital was cut off from ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 663 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

Reed voices

... work, Mezzrow as a clarinettist. In 1945 Mezz set up one of the most famous record labels to have been born since the second world war-- King Jazz. The abridged story of these memorable sessions is told by him in person between the tracks of two moving ...

Published: Wednesday 27 June 1962
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 629 | Page: 43 | Tags: Review 

COMMUNISM AT WORK: A knowledgeable survey by Sir Percival Griffiths

... reminiscences with COMMODORE (Angus and Robertson. 30s.). This part of Sir James's story centres particularly on the Second World War, when the author made sixty-five voyages in the big ships, carrying in all half a million troops to and from the war ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1961
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 671 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

SAHARA'S FUTURE: A survey of the desert and its oil

... West rendered much valuable aid to Allied airmen and the Allied cause. For a long time to come, personal records of the Second World War in every theatre will continue to add to the literature of that vast conflict. Lieut.-Colonel Balfour Oatts's THE JUNGLE ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 683 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Baptisms of fire

... are blasphemous, they are mockeries to man the black, dying trees ooze and sweat and the shells never cease During the Second World War his imagery was drawn primarily from the machines, not the men, but the intensity of his vision was even more acute than ...

Published: Wednesday 19 August 1964
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 652 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

ZIONIST FIGHTER: The autobiography of Norman Bentwich

... cross, with trends and styles passing from one to the other in a variety of ways by a variety of routes. Because the Second World War was in truth world-wide it was basically a naval war. The Allied navies carried the Allied armies across the seas to ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 703 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

VICTORIAN VISIONARY: The achievements of Joseph Paxton

... into countries where gold is at a premium. Donald E. Fish, after four years with M.I. 5 on aircraft sabotage during the Second World War, has played a leading part in fighting the new crime wave. AIRLINE DETECTIVE (Collins. 21s.) is a fascinating record ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 686 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

MARSHALS OF FRANCE: R. F. Delderfield on the Napoleonic Wars

... events. He could not have made a better beginning to his trilogy. It is a strange fact that the Nazi who sought to end the Second World War should have been the longest incarcerated for crimes against peace; but that has been the fate of Hitler's deputy leader ...

Published: Saturday 26 May 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 719 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

ART PATRON EXTRAORDINARY: The autobiography of Peggy Guggenheim

... e painting. In the late thirties her interests changed. when she opened an avant garde gallery in London; during the Second World War she realised her vision and in New York she fostered what is now accepted as the formidable new American school. Peggy ...

Published: Saturday 06 August 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 713 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

THE MURDER OF SIR HENRY WILSON: A key moment in the Irish Troubles

... in this well-reasoned book; but the fact remains, says Professor Falls, sea power was still the decisive factor in the Second World War. We must never forget that even the bomber offensive against Germany was wholly dependent upon oil, every drop of which ...

Published: Saturday 27 May 1961
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 706 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

SHORTER REVIEWS of Some of the Latest Books

... in South Africa. His account of the plot to force General Smuts into a declaration of neutrality at the start of the Second World War will be an eye-opener to those who are apt to forget that it is not yet half a century since the close of the South African ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 745 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review