May 2002 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: From the Pulpit | Second World War | Literary Lives | Belles Lettres From the Pulpit Felipe Fernández-Armesto History Lesson LR Second World War Max Egremont The Cold Cruelty of the German Army Berlin: The Downfall 1945 By Antony Beevor LR Richard Overy How One Man Escaped the Embrace of the Nazis Defying Hitler: A Memoir By Sebastian Haffner LR Michael Arditti The Medea of the Reich With the Ice-Cold Eyes Madga Goebbels By Anja Klabunde LR Literary Lives Francis Wyndham Sweet And Selfless The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell By Hilary Spurling LR Anthony Daniels When People Endured… In the Land of Pain By Alphonse Daudet (Translated by Julian Barnes) LR Belles Lettres Kathryn Hughes She is a Dab Hand at Making Cookies Negotiating With The Dead: A Writer On Writing By Margaret Atwood
Richard Overy How One Man Escaped the Embrace of the Nazis Defying Hitler: A Memoir By Sebastian Haffner LR
Francis Wyndham Sweet And Selfless The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell By Hilary Spurling LR
Anthony Daniels When People Endured… In the Land of Pain By Alphonse Daudet (Translated by Julian Barnes) LR
Kathryn Hughes She is a Dab Hand at Making Cookies Negotiating With The Dead: A Writer On Writing By Margaret Atwood
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson is practically a byword for old-fashioned Victorian grandeur, rarely pictured without a cravat and a serious beard.
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Seamus Perry: Before the Beard - The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes
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Novelist Muriel Spark had a tongue that could produce both sugar and poison. It’s no surprise, then, that her letters make for a brilliant read.
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