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THIS MONTH’S PULPIT is written by Andrew Lycett. He is the biographer of Ian Fleming, Dylan Thomas and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He is working on a book about Wilkie Collins.
FERGUS FLEMING’s anthology, The Traveller’s Daybook, will be published in November.
MAURICE KEEN has written widely on medieval history as a Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, Oxford from 1961 to 2000.
TIM BLANNING is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. His most recent book is The Romantic Revolution (Weidenfeld & Nicolson).
LEANDA DE LISLE’s latest book is The Sisters Who Would be Queen: The Tragedy of Mary, Katherine & Lady Jane Grey (HarperPress).
DONALD TRELFORD was Editor of The Observer from 1975 to 1993, and is Emeritus Professor of Journalism Studies at Sheffield University.
ANNA REID is the author of The Shaman’s Coat: A Native History of Siberia (Perseus Books). Her latest book, Leningrad: Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-1944, will be published by Bloomsbury in September.
MICHAEL BURLEIGH is working on a book about the global Cold War from 1945 to 1965 to be published in 2012.
CLAIRE HARMAN’s most r e c ent book is Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World (Canongate).
DANIEL SWIFT is the author of Bomber County: The Lost Airmen of World War Two, published by Penguin.
WILLIAM ST CLAIR is the author of The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge University Press).
LITERARY REVIEW July 2011
PULPIT
HISTORY
LITERARY LIVES
MUSIC & FILM
BOMBS AWAY
BIOGRAPHY
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ANDREW LYCETT
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MAURICE KEEN For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England, 1066–1500 Nigel Saul TIM BLANNING A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s ‘Germania’: From the Roman Empire to the Third Reich Christopher B Krebs MICHAEL BURLEIGH Imperial Endgame: Britain’s Dirty Wars and the End of Empire Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon LEANDA DE LISLE The Trials of Margaret Clitherow: Persecution, Martyrdom and the Politics of Sanctity in Elizabethan England Peter Lake & Michael Questier GILLIAN TINDALL The Inner Life of Empires: An EighteenthCentury History Emma Rothschild PETER JONES The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Vol I, The Ancient Mediterranean World (Edd) Keith Bradley & Paul Cartledge
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FERGUS FLEMING ON MERVYN PEAKE’S CENTENARY CLAIRE HARMAN Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox and the Creation of a Myth Katherine Frank DANIEL SWIFT Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great War Harry Ricketts WILLIAM ST CLAIR ON WILLIAM GODWIN’S LETTERS & DIARIES
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FREDERIC RAPHAEL Orpheus: The Song of Life Ann Wroe DANIEL SNOWMAN Gustav Mahler Jens Malte Fischer Richard Strauss: A Musical Life Raymond Holden PAUL BAILEY John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star Jonathan Croall KEVIN JACKSON Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen since the 1960s Kim Newman
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LEO MCKINSTRY The Age of Airpower Martin van Creveld PATRICK PORTER The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times Mohamed ElBaradei How the End Begins: The Road to Nuclear World War III Ron Rosenbaum
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SARAH BRADFORD As Good as God, As Clever as the Devil: The Impossible Life of Mary Benson Rodney Bolt DONALD TRELFORD First Lady of Fleet Street: The Life, Fortune and Tragedy of Rachel Beer Eilat Negev & Yehuda Koren CATHERINE PETERS Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde Franny Moyle ALEX GOODALL American Radical: The Life and Times of I F Stone D D Guttenplan TOM FLEMING Endgame: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Bobby Fischer Frank Brady
Editor: NANCY SLADEK Deputy Editor: TOM FLEMING Editor-at-Large: JEREMY LEWIS Senior Editor: JONATHAN BECKMAN Contributing Editors: MICHAEL BURLEIGH,
SARA WHEELER, PHILIP WOMACK Editorial Assistants: FRANK BRINKLEY, TOM WILLIAMS
Advertising Manager: TERRY FINNEGAN Classified Advertising: DAVID STURGE
Founding Father: AUBERON WAUGH
Cover illustration by Chris Riddell
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