Petain: Hero or Traitor?, by Herbert R. Lottman by Edward Pearce Philippe Petain died in 1951, a prisoner on the Isle D'Yeu below the Brittany peninsula where he was held for…
Alien Powers, by Kenneth Minogue by Edward Pearce One does not lightly pick up a book whose subtitle is "The Pure Theory of Ideology," even if the title…
Living With Koestler: Mamaine Koestler’s Letters 1945-51, edited by Celia Goodman by Edward Pearce In 1984, faced with an incurable and painful disease, and being a dogmatic supporter of voluntary euthanasia, Arthur Koestler took…
Helmut Schmidt, by Jonathan Carr by Edward Pearce Jonathan Carr, a staff writer for the (London) Financial Times, has given us a biography of Helmut Schmidt that is…
Hilaire Belloc, by A.N. Wilson by Edward Pearce In his day, Hilaire Belloc was treated as a peer by Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells, with whom he conducted…
