August 1997 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Oppression | Literary biography | Life | Biography & Memoir | Travel | History Oppression Damian Thompson Party Tricks Who's Afraid of Freemasons? The Phenomenon of Freemasonry By Alexander Piatigorsky LR Literary biography Keith Waterhouse Hack with Genius: Full of Fibs and Fantasies The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe By By Richard West LR Life Roy Porter Hunting Hookworms Tropical Diseases: From 50,000 BC to 2,500 AD By Robert S Desowitz Biography & Memoir Justin Wintle Saint Satchmo Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life By Laurence Bergreen LR Travel Anna Reid European Scepticism is Normal Continental Drifts: Travels in the New Europe By Nicholas Fraser Travels as a Brussel Scout By Nick Middleton LR History Peter Padfield More a Database Than a Book Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942 By Clay Blair LR
Damian Thompson Party Tricks Who's Afraid of Freemasons? The Phenomenon of Freemasonry By Alexander Piatigorsky LR
Keith Waterhouse Hack with Genius: Full of Fibs and Fantasies The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe By By Richard West LR
Anna Reid European Scepticism is Normal Continental Drifts: Travels in the New Europe By Nicholas Fraser Travels as a Brussel Scout By Nick Middleton LR
Peter Padfield More a Database Than a Book Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942 By Clay Blair LR
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