October 1996 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Foreign Parts | Biography & Memoirs | After the War | General | Politics Foreign Parts Jan Morris Make Him a Smooth Eunuch or an Enamoured Swain Venice and the Grand Tour By Bruce Redford Biography & Memoirs Craig Brown A Love Letter from the Friends He Left Behind Something Like Fire: Peter Cook Remembered By Lin Cook (ed.) After the War Christopher Hitchens No Cause to be Proud of our Victor’s Justice Nuremberg: The Last Battle By David Irving LR General Amanda Craig The Frightful Toil The Practice of Writing By David Lodge LR Politics Anne Applebaum At Least He Seems Likely to Win a Second Term The President They Deserve By Martin Walker
Craig Brown A Love Letter from the Friends He Left Behind Something Like Fire: Peter Cook Remembered By Lin Cook (ed.)
Christopher Hitchens No Cause to be Proud of our Victor’s Justice Nuremberg: The Last Battle By David Irving LR
Anne Applebaum At Least He Seems Likely to Win a Second Term The President They Deserve By Martin Walker
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In just thirteen years, George Villiers rose from plain squire to become the only duke in England and the most powerful politician in the land. Does a new biography finally unravel the secrets of his success?
John Adamson investigates.
John Adamson - Love Island with Ruffs
John Adamson: Love Island with Ruffs - The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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During the 1930s, Winston Churchill retired to Chartwell, his Tudor-style country house in Kent, where he plotted a return to power.
Richard Vinen asks whether it’s time to rename the decade long regarded as Churchill’s ‘wilderness years’.
Richard Vinen - Croquet & Conspiracy
Richard Vinen: Croquet & Conspiracy - Churchill’s Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm by Katherine Carter
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