Hazhir Teimourian
Conquest In Double Time
The Iraq War
By John Keegan
Hutchinson 254pp £18.99 order from our bookshop
In The Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat in Iraq
By Rick Atkinson
Little, Brown 320pp £9.99 order from our bookshop
IT MAY SURPRISE readers to learn that this reviewer, who was born in the highlands of Iranian Kurdistan during the Blitz, has been associated with the British army all his life, though always remotely and with long interruptions. My small market town of Sahneh, on the ancient Royal Road between Persepolis and Sardis, was grateful to find itself in the British-occupied sector of Iran, rather than the Soviet part, and, to show that gratitude, my father regularly invited British officers to lunch.
Sign Up to our newsletter
Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more.@Lit_Review
Follow Literary Review on Twitter
'Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug', by Augustine Sedgewick .... my thoughts on an engrossing socio-economic history, in Literary Review. https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-great-bean-counter @Lit_Review
Whizz town is the first of a series of essays on small north western towns. Literary Review | Issue 485 https://literaryreview.co.uk/whizz-town via @Lit_Review @Lit_Review @NottingHillEds @StuartMaconie @Detroit67Book @Tim_R_Nicholson @mikezandi @lemnsissay @louisethepoet @anthonyburgess
'Auden ... was a monstrously sloppy and unhygienic housekeeper, who was once astounded to hear that not every adult male pees in the kitchen sink.'
In April's cover article, Kevin Jackson roots around the houses of writers and artists.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/writers-in-residences