For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
20th Century & Autobiography & Memoir & Politics

April 2022 Issue

Richard Davenport-Hines

My Lovers and Other Animals

An Accidental Icon: How I Dodged a Bullet, Spoke Truth to Power, and Lived to Tell the Tale

By Norman Scott

February 1980 Issue

Bernard Crick

Political Memoirs

January 1988 Issue

Paul Foot

Lost in the Post

Out of The Wilderness: Diaries, 1963-1967

By Tony Benn

August 2003 Issue

Dennis Sewell

The Politics of Piety

Living History

By Hillary Rodham Clinton

The Clinton Wars: An Insider's Account of the White House Years

By Sidney Blumenthal

October 2003 Issue

Simon Heffer

A Decent Sort

Memoirs

By Douglas Hurd

Little, Brown 534pp £20

September 2008 Issue

Allan Massie

Paris Under the Swastika

Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France

By Agnes Humbert (Translated by Barbara Mellor)

March 2008 Issue

Mary Kenny

Caught in the Crossfire

Watching the Door: Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast

By Kevin Myers

September 2007 Issue

Jane Ridley

Alpha Female

Jennie Churchill: Winston’s American Mother

By Anne Sebba

April 2006 Issue

David Cesarani

Foiling The Führer

Killing Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots Against the Führer

By Roger Moorhouse

In the Bunker with Hitler: 23 July 1944 – 29 April 1945

By Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven with François d’Alençon (Translated by John Gilbert)

June 2012 Issue

John Sweeney

At War with Ceausescu

Burying the Typewriter: Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police

By Carmen Bugan